ibn

[ ib-uhn ]

/ ˈɪb ən /

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(often initial capital letter)

son of (used in Arabic personal names): ibn Saud.

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Origin of ibn

<Arabic: son (of); cf. ben⁴

One of the most important rooms in the temple is the shrine of Sheik Adi ibn Musafir.
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These included a flamboyant veteran of the war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan named Ibn al-Khattab.
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Since the death of ibn Saud in 1953, succession has moved only among his sons.
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In that attack, the Scooter Killer's first, the paratrooper, Ibn Ziaten, had sought to sell his Suzuki Bandit motorcycle.
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The soldier killed in Toulouse, Imad Ibn-Ziaten, 30, was of Moroccan origin.
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This phrase, says Ibn Khallikan, afterwards became a proverb.
A Boswell of Baghdad|E. V. Lucas
Thus the cautious encyclopædia; but Ibn Khallikan has no such hesitancy.
A Boswell of Baghdad|E. V. Lucas
I have not borrowed much from Ibn Khallikan's heroics, but this is good.
A Boswell of Baghdad|E. V. Lucas
It is in the sect of Abdullah ibn Maymūn that we must seek the model for Weishaupt's system of organization.
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The remarks of Ibn Batuta (c. 1332) already suggest the present state of things, viz.
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