ibn Sina

American  

[ib-uhn see-nah] / ˌɪb ən ˈsi nɑ /

noun

1. Arabic name of Avicenna.

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ibn-Sina British  

/ ˌɪbənˈsiːnə /

noun

1. the Arabic name of Avicenna

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Ibn Sina Scientific  

/ ĭb′ənsē′nä /

1. Persian physician and philosopher whose medical textbook, The Canon of Medicine, is a comprehensive medical encyclopedia that remained a standard work in European medical studies until the 17th century.

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Example Sentences

“Once our noses had become our common tongue, I became as the great Ibn Sina, a cataloguer of scents and their meanings. A flick of coriander with a punctuation of lemon oil meant, Peace be upon your hairless scalp, O troll king, protector of the underland countries, and ruler of their sunless seas. Oddly, mugwort just meant, mugwort.”

From Literature

He bats it away and continues, “As though Samir, the Seller of Dreams, who sold the scrolls of the Gospel of Rostam to the Crusaders; who once turned to the Doge of Venice and said, ‘You know, if you keep it this way, you could sell boat rides to the tourists’; Samir, the personal supplier to Ibn Sina and the child emperor of the Walled City—him.

From Literature

Patients flooded into the emergency room of the nearby Ibn Sina Hospital.

From Seattle Times

The military said that gunmen then fled in vehicles and ambulances toward Jenin's Ibn Sina Hospital, and that troops stopped one of the vehicles at the entrance to the hospital.

From Reuters

Al-Samaul Hussein Mansour, a Sudanese-British national, left his travel documents at his home amid his chaotic escape from the fighting in Khartoum, according to his younger brother, Ibn Sina Mansour.

From Seattle Times