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
الْأَبْنَاء • (al-ʾabnāʾ) 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
- (colony in Yemen): بَنُو الأَحْرَار (banū l-ʾaḥrār)
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