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ibn

[ ib-uhn ]

(often initial capital letter)
  1. son of (used in Arabic personal names):

    ibn Saud.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of ibn1

< Arabic: son (of ); ben 4
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Example Sentences

One of the most important rooms in the temple is the shrine of Sheik Adi ibn Musafir.

These included a flamboyant veteran of the war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan named Ibn al-Khattab.

Since the death of ibn Saud in 1953, succession has moved only among his sons.

In that attack, the Scooter Killer's first, the paratrooper, Ibn Ziaten, had sought to sell his Suzuki Bandit motorcycle.

The soldier killed in Toulouse, Imad Ibn-Ziaten, 30, was of Moroccan origin.

This phrase, says Ibn Khallikan, afterwards became a proverb.

Thus the cautious encyclopædia; but Ibn Khallikan has no such hesitancy.

I have not borrowed much from Ibn Khallikan's heroics, but this is good.

It is in the sect of Abdullah ibn Maymūn that we must seek the model for Weishaupt's system of organization.

The remarks of Ibn Batuta (c. 1332) already suggest the present state of things, viz.

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