Uzbek edit

Etymology edit

From Arabic نِسْبَةً (nisbatan), adverbial accusative of نِسْبَة (nisba). By surface analysis, nisbat +‎ -an. Compare Uyghur نىسبەتەن (nisbeten), Turkish nispeten and Azerbaijani nisbətən.

Postposition edit

nisbatan

  1. compared with
  2. with regard to