nasib
noun
nasib is a noun meaning “An Arabic literary form, 'usually defined as an erotic or amatory prelude to the type of long poem called a qaṣīdah.'” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-A-S-I-B, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of nasib is nasibs.
What does nasib mean?
noun
- 1
An Arabic literary form, 'usually defined as an erotic or amatory prelude to the type of long poem called a qaṣīdah.'
- 2
Alternative form of naseeb.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of nasib
- nasibs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is nasib?
Nasib appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does nasib come from?
Borrowed from Arabic نَسِيب (nasīb).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).