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To: ichabod1

I don’t know, that’s what the guy told me: “Our name used to be Ibn-xxxx, but it meant...”


91 posted on 02/11/2010 12:46:49 PM PST by Gorzaloon (GET him AWAY from the CAMERA!! They are all figuring it out!!!)
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To: Gorzaloon; ichabod1
Ichabod1 is correct.

Ibn- is ‘son of’. Ibn- become bin- when occurring further down the line in a name. I cannot recall the proper grammar rules though. But that's where the ‘bin-’ in ‘Bin-Laden’ comes from, ‘Son of Laden’.

Ibni would be ‘My son’.

Anytime you see ‘Abd’ beginning a name it connotes slave or servant. The name ‘Abdul’ means ‘servant of’ or ‘slave of’. Abdullah translates to “Servant of Allah”.

‘Son of a slave’ would probably be ‘Ibn abdul’ or something, I think. But don’t take that to the bank.

104 posted on 02/11/2010 4:16:18 PM PST by El Sordo (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
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