kunya

C20120
concept

A kunya is an honorific Arabic teknonymic name that identifies a person as the parent of a child, typically using "Abu" (father of) or "Umm" (mother of) followed by the child's name or a symbolic attribute.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
honorific kunya 13
kunya canonical 4
كنية 2

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: kunya
Generated description
A kunya is an honorific Arabic teknonymic name that identifies a person as the parent of a child, typically using "Abu" (father of) or "Umm" (mother of) followed by the child's name or a symbolic attribute.

Instances (19)

Instance Via concept surface
Abu al-Tayyib honorific kunya
Abul-Qasim —
Abu Abd Allah honorific kunya
Abu Zayd —
أبو الحارث كنية
Umm Ibrahim honorific kunya
Abu Abd Allah honorific kunya
Abu Abd Allah honorific kunya
Abu Umar honorific kunya
Abu Muhammad honorific kunya
Abu Muhammad honorific kunya
Abū’l-Faḍl honorific kunya
Abu al-Husayn al-Husayni al-Qurashi —
Abu ʿAbd Allah honorific kunya
Abu al-Husayn honorific kunya
أبو بشر كنية
Abu al-Fadl honorific kunya
Abū al-Ḥasan —
Umm al-Hadi honorific kunya