- Look up
nisba in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The
Arabic word
nisba (نسبة; also
transcribed as
nisbah or nisbat) may
refer to:
Nisba, a
suffix used...
- In
Arabic names, a
nisba (Arabic: نسبة nisbah, "attribution"), also
rendered as
nesba or nesbat, is an
adjective surname indicating the person's place...
- Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn
Uthman al-Jullabi al-Hujwiri (Persian: ابو الحسن علی بن عثمان الجلابی الھجویری, romanized: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿUthmān al-Jullābī...
- and
longer words. The only real
concatenative derivational process is the
nisba adjective -iyy-,
which can be
added to any noun (or even
other adjective)...
- Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Hanbali (Arabic: الحنبلي) is an
Arabic nisba that
means "of Hanbal",
implying a
follower of the
Hanbali Madhhab. People...
- the
Arabic name of the country,
which is a type of
adjective known as a
nisba,
formed from the
dynastic name of the
Saudi royal family, the Al Saud (Arabic:...
- Al-Ansari or
Ansari is an Arab community,
found predominantly in the Arab and
South Asian countries. They are
descended from the
Ansar of Madinah. The...
- died in 1869 and was
buried in Karbala. He
continued to be
known by the
nisba (title)
Hindi (i.e. from Hind or India),
indicating his stay there. Even...
- (comparative).
Adjective plurals of the form kibār 'big' → kubār.
Change of
nisba suffix -iyy > i.
Certain lexical items, e.g., jāb 'bring' < jāʼa bi- 'come...
-
Medjay (also Medjai, Mazoi, Madjai, Mejay,
Egyptian mḏꜣ.j, a
nisba of mḏꜣ) was a
demonym used in
various ways
throughout ancient Egyptian history to refer...
