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Nasab
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Arabic name.
Nasab
The nasab (Arabic: نسب, lit. 'lineage') is a patronymic or matronymic, or a series thereof. It indicates the person's heritage by the word ibn (ابن "son of", colloquially bin) or bint (بنت, "daughter of"). In the 1995 book Name Studies (De Gruyter), Wolfdietrich Fischer wrote that, although the nasab was still common contemporarily, ibn and bint were omitted "in almost all Arab countries".