نِسْبَةٌ
1.
(tropical:) Relation; proportion; comparison; with respect to quantity, or measure, and the like. See نَسَبٌ.
2.
بِنِسْبَةِ كَذَا
In proportion to such a thing.
3.
نِسْبَةُ العَشَرَةِ إِلَى المِايءَةِ
The proportion of ten to a hundred is [that of a tenth]. (Msb.)
4.
[You also say بِالنِّسْبَةِ إِلَى كَذَا
In relation to, or in comparison with, such a thing.]
5.
نِسْبَةٌ
A name of relation to a father, mother, tribe, town or district, art or trade, &c.: [as عَلَوِىٌّ, فَاطِمِىٌّ, قُرَشِىٌّ, مَكِّىٌّ, جَوْهَرِىٌّ:] ending with ىّ. A more general name of this kind should precede a more particular one: thus you say القُرَشِىُّ الهَاشِمِىُّ: and it is better that a name of relation to a tribe should precede one of relation to a town or the like: thus you say القُرَشِىُّ المَكِّىُّ. It is said that the Arabs originally called themselves by such names only in relation to tribes; and that, when they took up their abodes in cultivated lands and in cities, they borrowed names of relation to towns and the like from the Persians and Copts. (Msb.)
6.
نِسْبَةٌ (TA) and
مُنَاسَبَةٌ (S, K) and
تَنَاسُبٌ (TA) (tropical:) Resemblance; similarity; conformity; analogy; correspondence; suitableness; fitness. (S, K, TA.) Ex. بَيْنَ الشَّيْيءَيْنِ نسبةٌ, and
مناسبةٌ, and
تناسبٌ, Between the two things is a resemblance, &c.
بَيْنَهُمَا نسبةٌ قَرِيبَةٌ. Between them two is a near resemblance, &c. (TA.) [نِسْبَةٌ حُكْمِيَّةٌ The relation of a predicate to its subject (in books on logic).]