Charakter a štruktúra tradičných arabských mien

• Authors: Zuzana Gažáková

Title variants

EN

Character and structure of traditional Arabic names

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

This paper focuses on the structure and characteristic features of traditional Arabic names. It offers a thorough analysis of their main elements (ism, kunya, nasab, nisba, laqab, and shuhra), and it provides many examples pointing out their literal meanings. Attention is also paid to the importance of traditional Arabic names for the discipline of Islamic genealogy. There is a special focus on the manners of the harmonization of these names with Western standards as well as a short commentary about how the different ways of transcription of personal names may lead to serious misunderstandings on the practical level.

Keywords

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Arabic onomastics; traditional Arabic names; ism; nisba; nasab; laqab; kunya

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta onomastica
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 64
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 210-228
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Zuzana Gažáková

• Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i., Letenská 123/4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic