Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades
- proper noun
- Offensive
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Brigadas Abu Hafs al-Masri
- Security agencies have linked the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades to several attacks in the Middle East.
Examples
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The Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades claimed responsibility for the bombing in Istanbul.
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Reports suggest the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades have ties with other extremist organizations.
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The Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades claimed responsibility for the bombing.
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In 2005, the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades conducted several attacks.
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The Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades claimed responsibility for the bombing in Istanbul.
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Security agencies have linked the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades to several attacks in the Middle East.
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Reports suggest the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades have ties with other extremist organizations.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Abu + Hafs + al-Masri + brigade
The noun 'brigades' transparently signals a military or armed group, so a learner who knows 'brigade' can infer this is the name of a group of fighters. However, the sequence 'Abu Hafs al-Masri' is a proper-name/epithet whose referential and political meaning (a terrorist organization associated with Al Qaeda) is not derivable from the constituent words alone and requires specific world-knowledge, so the overall expression is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades is named after a man called Abu Hafs al-Masri, and Brigades means 'groups of fighters'. In Arabic, Abu is 'father of' and al-Masri is 'the Egyptian', so the full name shows a fighting group that uses that man's name.
