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As-Suwaidi (other)
As-Suwaidi (''as-Suwaydi'', ''al-Suwaidi'', etc.; ) is an Arabic Nisba (onomastics), nisbat derived from ''Suwayd (other), suwayd'' (an Arabic name derived from a root '':wikt:أسود, s-w-d'' "black", or from the Arabic name of name of Sweden, Sweden). People *As-Suwaydi (physician), a medieval physician (d. 1292) *Tawfiq al-Suwaidi (1892-1968), Iraqi politician *Naji al-Suwaidi (1882 – 1942), Iraqi politician *Khalid Habash Al-Suwaidi (born 1984), a Qatari athlete * a nisba referencing the Syrian As-Suwayda Governorate * a nisba meaning "from Sweden" used as ''nom de guerre'' (''kunya'') by a number of Islamic terrorists from or based in Sweden, see Islam in Sweden Places *As-Suwaidi (Riyadh), a district of Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia. * Bayt As Suwaydi, Yemen See also *Suwayd (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Suwaidi Arabic-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nisba (onomastics)
In Arabic names, a ' ( ar, نسبة ', "attribution"), also rendered as ' or ', is an adjective indicating the person's place of origin, tribal affiliation, or ancestry, used at the end of the name and occasionally ending in the suffix ''-iyy(ah)''. , originally an Arabic word, has been passed to many other languages such as Turkish, Persian, Bengali and Urdu. In Persian, Turkish, and Urdu usage, it is always pronounced and written as '. In Arabic usage, that pronunciation occurs when the word is uttered in its construct state only. The practice has been adopted in Iranian names and South Asian Muslim names. The can at times become a surname. Original use A "relation" is a grammatical term referring to the suffixation of masculine -''iyy'', feminine ''-iyyah'' to a word to make it an adjective. As an example, the word ''‘Arabiyy'' () means "Arab, related to Arabic, Arabian". forms are very common in Arabic names. Use in onomastics Traditional Arabic names do not incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |