nisbah

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English

Noun

nisbah (plural nisbahs)

  1. 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)

  1. (arithmetic, mathematics) ratio:
    Synonyms: nisbah, perbandingan, proporsi, 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

References

  1. ^ 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)

  1. ratio

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