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English
Noun
nisbah (plural nisbahs)
- Alternative form of nisba
Anagrams
Indonesian
Etymology
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
Noun
nisbah (plural nisbah-nisbah, first-person possessive nisbahku, second-person possessive nisbahmu, third-person possessive nisbahnya)
- (arithmetic, mathematics) ratio:
- Synonyms: nisbah, perbandingan, proporsi, rasio
- a number representing a comparison between two named things.
- the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient).
- family relationship
- (Arabic grammar) nisba: a common suffix to form adjectives of relation or pertinence.
- (Islamic finance) agreement
Derived terms
References
- ^ Erwina Burhanuddin, Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan, R.B. Chrismanto (1993) Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, →ISBN, →OCLC
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Malay
Etymology
From Arabic نِسْبَة (nisba).
Noun
nisbah (Jawi spelling نيسبه, plural nisbah-nisbah, informal 1st possessive nisbahku, 2nd possessive nisbahmu, 3rd possessive nisbahnya)
- ratio
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