nisbah

English

Noun

nisbah (plural nisbahs)

  1. Alternative form of nisba.

Anagrams

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay nisbah, from Classical Malay nisbah, from Arabic نِسْبَة (nisba).[1] The sense in Arabic grammar and Islamic finance are semantic borrowings from the same Arabic word.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈnisbah/ [ˈnis.bah]
  • Rhymes: -isbah
  • Syllabification: nis‧bah

Noun

nisbah (plural nisbah-nisbah)

  1. (arithmetic, mathematics) ratio:
    Synonym: rasio
    1. a number representing a comparison between two named things
    2. the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient)
  2. family relationship
  3. (Arabic grammar) nisba: a common suffix to form adjectives of relation or pertinence
  4. (Islamic finance) agreement

Derived terms

  • dinisbahkan
  • menisbahkan
  • nisbah aspek
  • nisbah campur
  • nisbah campur kelembapan
  • nisbah kegiatan
  • nisbah likuiditas
  • nisbah neraca
  • nisbah pajak
  • nisbah pengisian
  • nisbah pengupasan
  • nisbah rongga

References

  1. ^ Erwina Burhanuddin, Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan, R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian]‎[1], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, →OCLC

Further reading

Malay

Etymology

From Arabic نِسْبَة (nisba).

Noun

nisbah (Jawi spelling نيسبه, plural nisbah-nisbah)

  1. ratio

Further reading