- 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...
- 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...
-
following complications of a
minor operation he had undergone.
Mohammed V's
nisbah is
Mohammed bin
Yusef bin H****an bin
Muhammad bin Abd al-Rahman bin Hisham...
- (also a writing-related place, but
different from maktab, as above). The
nisbah suffix -iyy-. This
suffix is
extremely productive, and
forms adjectives...
-
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...
- In
Arabic names, a
nisba (Arabic: نسبة
nisbah, "attribution"), also
rendered as
nesba or nesbat, is an
adjective surname indicating the person's place...
- the
newly conquered-nation,
which the
Ottomans called Rûm. Al-Rūmī is a
nisbah that
designates people originating in the
Eastern Roman Empire or lands...
- In
Arabic onomastics ("
nisbah"), Al-Amriki (lit. 'The American')
denotes a
relationship to or from the
United States and may
refer to: Abu
Mansoor Al-Amriki...
