الأبناء

Arabic

Etymology

From اَلْ (al-) + أَبْنَاء (ʾabnāʾ), plural of اِبْن (ibn, son).

The second sense may be a short form of the phrase أَبْنَاء الْدَوْلَة (ʾabnāʾ al-dawla, literally sons of the state, i.e. the Abbasid Caliphate).

Proper noun

اَلْأَبْنَاء (al-ʾabnāʾ) ?

  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-ʾaḥrār)

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