Re: `bin' or `ibn' Ladin?

In a message dated Thu, 1 Nov 2001 8:34:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, William
Annis <annis@...> writes:

>  >From: Roger Mills <romilly@...>
>  >
>  >Does Arabic use the article after ibn?  (Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Saud, the only
>  >exs. I can produce).
>
>         Since "ibn/bin" just means "son" I'm not sure when you'd use
> "son of the..." in anything but an insult. :)
>
>  >I'd been thinking that perhaps the Lad(i,e)n name was somehow related to
>  >"Ladino", the Judeo-Spanish dialect.  In modern Span., "ladino", for
>  >whatever reasons, has come to mean 'clever, sly'.
>
>         I would guess "Ladino" is just "latin."
>
>  >What if anything might _adiin_ or "ladin" mean?
>
>         "Diin" means religion, though "yawmu d-diini" refers to the
> day of judgement.

A Cognate of   'yom ha-din' of the same meaning in Hebrew.

Elliott