Re: `bin' or `ibn' Ladin?
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 2, 2001, 18:09 |
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On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, William Annis wrote:
> >From: Roger Mills <romilly@...>
> >
> >Does Arabic use the article after ibn? (Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Saud, the only
> >exs. I can produce).
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> Since "ibn/bin" just means "son" I'm not sure when you'd use
> "son of the..." in anything but an insult. :)
From the little bit of Arabic I picked up in Tunisia, I would have to
agree, based on "ibn el kelb"...
---frank
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