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- noun grammar a common Arabic suffix to form adjectives of relation or pertinence - ـي -ī, -iyy m. / ـية -íyya f., which has given rise to English adjective ending -i -
Iraqi ,Kuwaiti ,Bahraini ,Pakistani , etc.
Etymologies
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From Arabic نسبة (nísba)
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Note 71: Chelwashtee is a Persianized nisba adjective of the Pashto tsalwekht or forty.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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(Palermo, 1650); TYSZKIEWICZ, Królewska droga do nisba albo zycie sw.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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