Re: `bin' or `ibn' Ladin?

On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 12:12:04 -0500, Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> wrote:

>Besides, *in the end of a sentence*, the case endings -u(n)/a(n)/i(n) must
>be dropped, so the isolated form is ?ibn for all three cases.
Sorry, the isolated Acc. (indefinite) form is indeed ?ibna(:), thus
different from Nom/Gen ?ibn.

So, probably, romanizations *always* take Arabic names in Nom.; forms
like Abdallah (instead of Abdullah) are perhaps a result of deeper
analysis: Abd-al-'Lah, 'servant of God' (each component, including the
article, transcribed as if isolated).


Basilius

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