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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
- (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
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