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nesba

nesba is the alternative form of nisba.

Meaning of nisba

Noun

nisba (plural nisbas)

  1. An Arabic derivational adjective formed with the suffix ـِيّ m (-iyy) / ـِيَّة f (-iyya), or the equivalent construction in another Semitic (or other Afroasiatic) language.
  2. The part of an Arabic name consisting of such an adjective.
    • Knowing the nisbas of the litigants and their representatives was the qāḍī's single most important preliminary task.2013, Zouhair Ghazzal, The grammars of adjudication: The economics of judicial decision making in fin-de-siècle Ottoman Beirut and Damascus

Forms of nesba

pluralnesbas

Questions about nesba

What is nesba the alternative form of?
Nesba is the alternative form of nisba.

Words near nesba in the dictionary

  1. NESA
  2. Nesaean
  3. Nesaian
  4. nesapidil
  5. NESB
  6. nesba
  7. nesbas
  8. Nesbit
  9. Nesbits
  10. Nesbitt
  11. Nesbitts

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