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nisbah

nisbah 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 nisbah

pluralnisbahs

Questions about nisbah

What is nisbah the alternative form of?
Nisbah is the alternative form of nisba.

Words near nisbah in the dictionary

  1. Nisan
  2. Nisarg
  3. Nisarga
  4. NiSb
  5. nisba
  6. nisbah
  7. nisbahs
  8. nisbas
  9. nisbe
  10. nisberries
  11. nisberry

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