Meaning

1 senses
  1. Son of

    "Ali ibn Amr": "Ali son of Amr".

Examples

6 sentences
  1. The great traveler Ibn Battuta was Berber.

  2. The great traveler Ibn Battuta was a Berber from Morocco.

  3. The Tarik Ibn Ziad has weighed anchor and it's ready to sail to Algiers.

  4. Ibn Tufail also criticized Islam through a literary process called allegory.

  5. Ibn Abi Kabsha has become so prominent that even the King of Byzantium is afraid of him.

Origin

Borrowed from Arabic اِبْن (ibn, “son”).

Borrowed from Arabic اِبْن (ibn, “son”).

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Forms

plural: ibns
Singularibn
Pluralibns

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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