- 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...
- Abū ʾl-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. ʿUthmān b. ʿAlī al-Ghaznawī al-Jullābī al-Hujwīrī (c. 1009-1072/77),
known as ʿAlī al-Hujwīrī or al-Hujwīrī (also
spelt Hajweri, Hajveri...
- Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Hanbali (Arabic: الحنبلي) is an
Arabic nisba that
means "of Hanbal",
implying a
follower of the
Hanbali Madhhab. People...
- 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)...
- 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...
- 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...
-
surnames have been and are
still of
great importance. An
early form of
tribal nisbas is
attested among Amorite and
Aramean tribes in the
early Bronze and Iron...
- is an
Arabic name
meaning "Glory of the Faith". Balkhī and Rūmī are his
nisbas, meaning, respectively, "from Balkh" and "from Rûm" ('Roman,' what European...
