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ن-س-ب

Nun-Sin-Ba

2 words from this root family

About this root

Nun-Sin-Ba (ن-س-ب) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: munāsib (suitable / appropriate), nisba miʾawiyya (percentage).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 3 times in 3 verses, across 3 of the 114 suras. The first is in 23:101.

Themes: Adjectives, Basics, Numbers, Numbers Practical

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
مُناسِب
munāsib
suitable / appropriateadjective, A1Adjectives - Final Set
نِسْبَة مِئَوِيَّة
nisba miʾawiyya
percentagenoun, A2Practical Number Words

In the Quran

فَإِذَا نُفِخَ فِى ٱلصُّورِ فَلَآ أَنسَابَ بَيْنَهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَلَا يَتَسَآءَلُونَ

And when the trumpet is blown there will be no kinship among them that day, nor will they ask of one another.

Quran 23:101
وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ مِنَ ٱلْمَآءِ بَشَرًا فَجَعَلَهُۥ نَسَبًا وَصِهْرًا ۗ وَكَانَ رَبُّكَ قَدِيرًا

And He it is Who hath created man from water, and hath appointed for him kindred by blood and kindred by marriage; for thy Lord is ever Powerful.

Quran 25:54
وَجَعَلُوا۟ بَيْنَهُۥ وَبَيْنَ ٱلْجِنَّةِ نَسَبًا ۚ وَلَقَدْ عَلِمَتِ ٱلْجِنَّةُ إِنَّهُمْ لَمُحْضَرُونَ

And they imagine kinship between him and the jinn, whereas the jinn know well that they will be brought before (Him).

Quran 37:158

Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).

Word cards with examples

A1adjective
مُناسِب
munāsib

suitable / appropriate

Example
هٰذا الوَقتُ مُناسِب
hādhā al-waqtu munāsib
This time is suitable
Grammar

Feminine form: munāsiba (مُناسِبة). Form III active participle.

A2noun
نِسْبَة مِئَوِيَّة
nisba miʾawiyya

percentage

Example
النِّسْبَةُ الْمِئَوِيَّةُ لِلنَّجَاحِ عَالِيَةٌ
an-nisbatu al-miʾawiyyatu li-n-najāḥi ʿāliyatun
The success percentage is high

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