nisba
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nisba (plural nisbas)
- An Arabic derivational adjective formed with the suffix ـِيّ m (-iyy) / ـِيَّة f (-iyya), or the equivalent construction in another Semitic language.
- The part of an Arabic name consisting in such an adjective.
- 2013, Zouhair Ghazzal, The grammars of adjudication: The economics of judicial decision making in fin-de-siècle Ottoman Beirut and Damascus[1]:
- Knowing the nisbas of the litigants and their representatives was the qāḍī's single most important preliminary task.
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Sometimes hypothesized to be from German nichts or nix da.[1]
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nisba
- (colloquial, regional) nix, none
- 1959, La cambiale:
- - Lei testimoni li ha?
- Eh, l'avvocato! Testimoni - nisba!
- E allora lo facciamo venire.
- A chi?
- A Nisba.
- No, dicevo "nisba". Nessuno!- - Do you have any witnesses?
- Well, a lawyer! Witnesses, nix!
- Then we'll have him come here.
- Who?
- Nix.
- No, I meant "nix", no one!
- - Do you have any witnesses?
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- nisba in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana