الأبناء
Arabic edit
Etymology edit
From اَلْ (al-) + أَبْنَاء (ʔabnāʔ), plural of اِبْن (ibn, “son”).
The second sense may be a short form of the phrase أَبْنَاء الْدَوْلَة (ʔabnāʔ al-dawla, literally “sons of the state, i.e. the Abbasid Caliphate”).
Proper noun edit
الْأَبْنَاء • (al-ʔabnāʔ) pl
- (historical, archaic) a colony in early Islamic Yemen descended from Sasanian Persian military people
- (historical, archaic) a group residing in Abbasid-era old Baghdad descended from army members of Persian origin
Synonyms edit
- (colony in Yemen): بَنُو الأَحْرَار (banū l-ʔaḥrār)
See also edit
Al-Abna' on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Abna' al-dawla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
