nisba

Noun. (grammar, lang en) a common Arabic suffix to form adjectives of relation or pertinence - (Arab, ـي) -iyy (m) / (Arab, ـية) -íyya (f) , which has given rise to English adjective ending -i - Iraqi, Kuwaiti, Bahraini, Pakistani, etc.

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