ibn Sina

[ ib-uhn see-nah ]

noun

1. Arabic name of Avicenna.

ibn-Sina

/ ˌɪbənˈsiːnə /

noun

1. the Arabic name of Avicenna

Ibn Sina

/ ĭb′ənsē′nä /

1. Persian physician and philosopher whose medical textbook, The Canon of Medicine, is a comprehensive medical encyclopedia that remained a standard work in European medical studies until the 17th century.

Example Sentences

“Once our noses had become our common tongue, I became as the great Ibn Sina, a cataloguer of scents and their meanings. A flick of coriander with a punctuation of lemon oil meant, Peace be upon your hairless scalp, O troll king, protector of the underland countries, and ruler of their sunless seas. Oddly, mugwort just meant, mugwort.”

From Literature

He bats it away and continues, “As though Samir, the Seller of Dreams, who sold the scrolls of the Gospel of Rostam to the Crusaders; who once turned to the Doge of Venice and said, ‘You know, if you keep it this way, you could sell boat rides to the tourists’; Samir, the personal supplier to Ibn Sina and the child emperor of the Walled City—him.

From Literature

It was still dark out, and many patients at the Ibn Sina hospital in the West Bank were still sleeping, when the hit squad arrived.

From Los Angeles Times

And the raid at the Ibn Sina Specialized Hospital in the northern West Bank city of Jenin suggested that Israel would continue chasing down Hamas leaders across the region.

From New York Times

The Israeli military said forces entered the Ibn Sina hospital in the northern city of Jenin early Tuesday and shot the three men, who Hamas claimed as members.

From Seattle Times