Re: `bin' or `ibn' Ladin?

 >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.  Anyway, 'diin' appears in a lot of names.

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wm

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