- but
today is
restricted to the surname, or
family name, of birth. The
nisbah (نسبة)
surname could be an
everyday name, but is
mostly the name of the...
- universal. For example,
Hunayn ibn
Ishaq (fl. 850 AD) was
known by the
nisbah "al-'Ibadi", a
federation of Arab
Christian tribes that
lived in Mesopotamia...
- the free dictionary. The
Arabic word
nisba (نسبة; also
transcribed as
nisbah or nisbat) may
refer to: Nisba, a
suffix used to form
adjectives in Arabic...
- (also a writing-related place, but
different from maktab, as above). The
nisbah suffix -iyy-. This
suffix is
extremely productive, and
forms adjectives...
-
final yaʾ is
usually written at the end of
words for
nisba (اَلنِّسْبَة
nisbah)
which is a
common suffix to form
adjectives of
relation or pertinence....
-
shadda is
particularly used to turn a noun into an adjective,
called a
nisbah (نِسْبَة). For instance, مِصْر Miṣr (Egypt) → مِصْرِيّ Miṣriyy (Egyptian)...
- al-Zawahiri (Arabic: الظواهري, aẓ-Ẓawāhirī) is an
Arabic surname or
nisbah derived from name of the town of Zawahir,
Saudi Arabia. The
definite article...
- from ʾalif. Long
vowels /iː/ and /uː/ are
transliterated as ī and ū. The
nisbah suffix /ij(j), ijja/
appears as -iyy, -iyyah
although the
former is normally...
- exist, and in the rest of
cases it
depends on
nisbahs.: 53 However, al-Mawsili is by far the most
common nisbah; only two
others are attested: al-Is'irdi...
- In
Arabic onomastics (
nisbah), Al-Badawi (البدوي) or
simply Badawi (بدوي)
denotes a
relationship to or from
Bedouin areas (and may
consequently imply 'rustic')...
