Home › Words › Q › qurayshitequrayshitequrayshite means part of, or descended from, the Quraysh tribe.EtymologyFrom Quraysh + -ite.adjpart of, or descended from, the Quraysh tribe.e.g.“A member of the Qurayshite Umayyad family wanted to claim the poet al-Farazdaq's bride al-Nawār, though the poet thought he could prove that he had a clear claim because he had paid the bride price.” — 1971, Ignaz Goldziher, edited by S. M. Stern, Muslim Studies, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 77:nouna member of this tribe.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).