نسبة

Verbal noun of نَسَبَ (nasaba).

• IPA^(key): /nis.ba/

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نِسْبَة • (nisba) f (plural نِسَب (nisab))

1. verbal noun of نَسَبَ (nasaba) (form I)
2. relationship, affiliation
3. connection, relation
4. agreement
5. ratio, proportion
6. rate

   اِنْخَفَضَتْ نِسْبَةُ ٱلْبِطَالَةِ فِي ٱلسَّنَوَاتِ ٱلْأَخِيرَةِ.

   inḵafaḍat nisbatu l-biṭālati fī s-sanawāti l-ʔaḵīrati.

   The unemployment rate has decreased in recent years.

7. percentage

   تَدْرُسُ نِسْبَةٌ كَبِيرَةٌ مِنَ ٱلشَّبَابِ فِي ٱلْخَارِجِ.

   tadrusu nisbatun kabīratun mina š-šabābi fī l-ḵāriji.

   A big percentage of young people study abroad.

8. (grammar) nisba, a common suffix to form adjectives of relation or pertinence, e.g. ـي (-ī, -iyy) m and ـيَة (-íyya) f.

• → Azerbaijani: nisbət
• → Bashkir: нисбәт (nisbət)
• → English: nisba
• → German: Nisbe
• → Malay: nisbah
• → Ottoman Turkish: نسبت (nisbet)
  • Turkish: nisbet
  • → Albanian: nisbet
• → Persian: نسبه (nesbe), نسبت (nesbat)
• → Russian: ни́сба (nísba)
• → Tajik: нисба (nisba)
• → Uyghur: نىسبەت (nisbet)
• → Uzbek: nisbat

Adverbial accusative of نِسْبَة (nisba, “relationship”).

• IPA^(key): /nis.ba.tan/

نِسْبَةً • (nisbatan)

1. in proportion to, in comparison with
2. in allusion to, after (as in "named after")

   جَامِعُ الفَاتِحُ سُمَّى نِسْبَةً لِلسُّلْطَانِ مُحَمَّدِ الفَاتِحِ

   jāmiʕu l-fātiḥu summā nisbatan li-s-sulṭāni muḥammadi l-fātiḥi

   Fatih Mosque was named after the sultan Mehmed the Conqueror.

• → Azerbaijani: nisbətən
• → Ottoman Turkish: نسبةً (nisbeten)
  • → Turkish: nispeten
  • → Crimean Tatar: nisbeten
• → Uyghur: نىسبەتەن (nisbeten)
• → Uzbek: nisbatan

From Arabic نِسْبَة (nisba).

• IPA^(key): /nis.be/, [ˈnɪs.be]
• IPA^(key): /nis.ba/, [ˈnɪs.ba]

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نسبة • (nisbe) f

1. relation, proportion, ration
2. extent, degree, rate

• بالنسبة (bin-nisbe, “concerning, regarding”)