Nisba Explained

The Arabic word nisba (Arabic: نسبة; also transcribed as nisbah or nisbat) may refer to:

• Nisba, a suffix used to form adjectives in Arabic grammar, or the adjective resulting from this formation
  • comparatively, in Afro-Asiatic: see Afroasiatic_languages#nisba
• Nisba (onomastics), a word used as an element in an Arabic name