الأبناء

Arabic

Etymology

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

الْأَبْنَاء • (al-ʔabnāʔ) pl

1. (historical, archaic) a colony in early Islamic Yemen descended from Sasanian Persian military people
2. (historical, archaic) a group residing in Abbasid-era old Baghdad descended from army members of Persian origin

Synonyms

• (colony in Yemen): بَنُو الأَحْرَار (banū l-ʔaḥrār)

See also

• Al-Abna' on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Abna' al-dawla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/abna-term
• http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/baghdad-iranian-connection-1-pr-Mongol