Banu (Arabic)

Banū (بنو) or Banī (بني) is Arabic for "the children of" or "descendants of" and appears before the name of a tribal progenitor. Another example of the usage is the Bani Quraish, the tribe from which Muhammad came, for which a Quranic Surah is also named.

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