إِبْنُthe son

Example sentences

• الَّتِي فِيهَا إِبْنُ صَيَّادٍ وَهُوَ يَخْتِلُ

  in which Ibn Sayyad was present and he was strutting.

  ابْنُ — the son. The 'son of' head of a name-chain, here standing as the subject inside the relative clause. It leans onto the following name to finish the identification and owns it, binding the two into one patronymic.

  From: A Night with the Companions →

• ثُمَّ قَالَ أَفِي الْقَوْمِ إِبْنُ أَبِ قُحَافَةِ ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ،

  Then he said, "Is the son of Abu Quhafa among the people?" three times.

  ابْنُ — the son. A noun 'son' opening an 'of' pairing, the start of 'son of Abu Quhafa'; here it stands as the subject of the nominal question, so it takes the subject ending. It is owned by the name-unit that follows.

  From: A Companion at Battle →

• تَعَرَّضَ إِبْنُ الْجَوْزِيِّ فِي شَيْخُوخَتِهِ لِمِحْنَةٍ قَاسِيَةٍ

  In his old age, Ibn al-Jawzi was subjected to a severe trial.

  إِبْنُ — Ibn. A noun 'son (of)' that is the first half of a name-construct, the doer who underwent the trial. As the first member of an 'of' pairing it waits for the following name and gives up its own article to it.

  From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →

• فَكَتَبَ إِبْنُ الْقَصَّابِ إِلَى الْخَلِيفَةِ النَّاصِرِ،

  So Ibn al-Qassab wrote to the caliph al-Nasir,

  إِبْنُ — Ibn. A noun 'son (of)' beginning a name-construct as the subject (writer), so it wears the subject ending; it is the first half of an 'of' name-pair waiting for the following name and giving up its own article to it.

  From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →

• لَقَدْ إِبْتَدَأَ إِبْنُ الْجَوْزِيِّ فِي التَّصْنِيفِ وَلَهُ مِنَ الْعُمْرِ سَبْعَ عَشَرَ سَنَةً؛

  Ibn al-Jawzi began compiling works when he was seventeen years old.

  إِبْنُ — son. The 'son of' head of a name-chain, meaningful only with the name that follows it. It grammatically owns that following name and the two read as one naming unit; here it introduces the man who is the doer of 'began'.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →

• مِنْهُمْ إِبْنُهُ عَبْدُ ٱلْعَزِيزِ ٱلَّذِي مَاتَ مَسْمُومًا بِالْمَوْصِلِ،

  Among them was his son Abd al-Aziz, who died after being poisoned in Mosul,

  إِبْنُهُ — his son. A noun with an attached possessor stuck on its end, so the ownership is built into the single word rather than shown with a separate possessive. The attached owner reaches back to the father who is the subject of the passage, not to any nearer name. The next words then rename this son.

  From: Sermons, Wit, and Sorrow →

• قَالَ إِبْنُ عَبَّاسِ

  Ibn Abbas said.

  إِبْنُ — son of. This word means 'son of' and sits between a person and his father, forming a lineage pairing: the name after fills in whose son. As the front half of that pairing it is in the governed form here. Arabic builds a lineage by linking two names with this bare 'son-of', no separate 'of'.

  From: Stories of Prophetic Judgments →

• فَقَالَ هُوَ إِبْنُكِ

  So he said, "He is your son."

  ابْنك — your son. A noun 'son' with a tail pronoun 'your' welded on, and that possessor is specifically the feminine 'your', so it addresses a woman. The feminine form of the tail is what tells you the listener is female, a detail carried only by that ending. So one word states both 'son' and that he belongs to her.

  From: Stories of Prophetic Judgments →