Naseeb

Naseeb (also spelled Nesib, Nasib or Nasip) (Arabic: نصيب‎) is an Arabic term used in many languages including Indonesian, Malay, Persian, Turkish, Pashto, Sindhi, Somali, Urdu, Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali and Punjabi it means destiny or fate. The literal meaning in Arabic is "share", but it came to be understood as "one's share in life", and thus their destiny. It may refer to:

Film

• Nasib (1945 film), a Bollywood film of 1945
• Naseeb (1981 film), a Hindi film
• Naseeb (1994 film), see Shaan Shahid filmography
• Naseeb (1997 film), a Hindi film

Literature

• Nasīb (poetry), a literary form usually constituting an amatory prelude to a qaṣīdah

Places

• Nasib, Syria, a town in the Daraa Governorate of Syria
• Nasib Border Crossing, a border crossing between Syria and Jordan

People with the given name

• Nasib Arida (1887–1946), Syrian poet and writer
• Nasib al-Bakri, Syrian nationalist and statesman
• Nasib al-Bitar (1890–1948), Palestinian jurist
• Fateh Naseeb Khan (1890–1933), Indian military commander
• Habib Nasib Nader (born 1979), British actor
• Mohammed Naseeb Qureshy (1933–2005), Indian scientist
• Naseeb Saliba (1915–2008), Armenian construction mogul
• Nasib Yusifbeyli (1881–1920), Azerbaijani publicist
• Nasibi Tahir Babai (d.1835), Albanian Bektashi saint

People with the surname

• Lotfi Nasib (1926–2011), Finnish ice hockey player