Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Nisbah (Arabic: نسبة) is originally an Arabic word that was passed to many other languages such as Turkish, Persian and Urdu. In Arabic names, a nisba (also spelled nesba ; Arabic: نسبة nisbah, "attribution") is an adjective indicating the person's place of origin, tribal affiliation, or ancestry, used at the end of the name and ending in the suffix -iyy(ah).In the usage of Persian, Turkish and Urdu, it is pronounced/written exclusively nisbat. In Arabic usage, that pronunciation occurs when the word is uttered in its genitive case only.The practice has been adopted in Iranian name and South Asia Muslim names, and the nisba sometimes became a surname."@en }
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- Q1054545 abstract "Nisbah (Arabic: نسبة) is originally an Arabic word that was passed to many other languages such as Turkish, Persian and Urdu. In Arabic names, a nisba (also spelled nesba ; Arabic: نسبة nisbah, "attribution") is an adjective indicating the person's place of origin, tribal affiliation, or ancestry, used at the end of the name and ending in the suffix -iyy(ah).In the usage of Persian, Turkish and Urdu, it is pronounced/written exclusively nisbat. In Arabic usage, that pronunciation occurs when the word is uttered in its genitive case only.The practice has been adopted in Iranian name and South Asia Muslim names, and the nisba sometimes became a surname.".