Arab

See also: arab, àrab, and arab.

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Arabic or French arabe.

Symbol

Arab

1. (international standards) ISO 15924 script code for Arabic.

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Arab

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab, “Arabs”) or back-formation from Arabic.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ârʹəb, IPA^(key): /ˈæɹ.əb/
• (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɛɹ.əb/
• (dated) enPR: āʹrăb, IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.ɹæb/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -æɹəb

Adjective

Arab (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations.

   Synonym: (nonstandard) Arabic

   • 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:

     The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.

Translations

of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations

Albanian: arab (sq) m, arabe (sq) f Arabic: عَرَبِيّ (ar) (ʕarabiyy) Armenian: արաբական (hy) (arabakan) Aromanian: arabescu m, arabeascã f Azerbaijani: ərəb Bashkir: ғәрәп (ğərəp) Belarusian: ара́бскі (arábski) Bengali: আরবি (bn) (arobi) Bulgarian: ара́бски (arábski) Burmese: အာရပ် (arap) Catalan: àrab (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 阿拉伯 (aa3 laai1 baak3) Dungan: араб (arab) Mandarin: 阿拉伯 (zh) (Ālābó) Coptic: ⲁⲣⲁⲃⲟⲥ (arabos) Czech: arabský (cs) Danish: arabisk (da), araber- Dutch: Arabisch (nl) Esperanto: araba (eo) Estonian: araabia (et) Finnish: arabialainen (fi) French: arabe (fr) Gagauz: Arap Georgian: არაბული (ka) (arabuli) German: arabisch (de), Araber- Greek: αραβικός (el) m (aravikós) Ancient: Ἀραβικός (Arabikós) Hebrew: עֲרָבִי (he) m (araví), עֲרָבִית (he) f (aravít) Hindi: अरबी (hi) (arbī), अरब (hi) m (arab) Hungarian: arab (hu) Indonesian: arabik, bahasa Arab (id) Irish: Arabach Italian: arabo (it) Japanese: アラブの (ja) (arabu no) Kazakh: араб (kk) (arab) Khmer: អារ៉ាប់ (km) (ʼaarap) Korean: 아랍의 (arab-ui) Kyrgyz: араб (ky) (arab) Lao: ອາຣັບ (ʼā rap), ອາຫຼັບ (ʼā lap) Latvian: arābu, arābisks Lithuanian: arabų, arabiškas (lt) Macedonian: а́рапски (árapski) Malay: Arab Malayalam: അറബി (ml) (aṟabi) Maltese: Għarbi (mt) m Manx: Arabagh Maori: Ārapi Marathi: अरबी (arbī) Neapolitan: arabbo Norwegian: arabisk (no) Bokmål: arabisk (no), araber- Nynorsk: arabisk, arabar- Occitan: arabi (oc), arab (oc) Old English: Arabisċ Pashto: عربي (ps) (arabi), عرب (ps) m (arab), تازي (ps) m (tāzi) (derogatory) Persian: عَرَب (fa) ('arab), تازی (fa) (tâzi) (derogatory) Polish: arabski (pl) Portuguese: árabe (pt) Romanian: arab (ro) Russian: ара́бский (ru) (arábskij) Scottish Gaelic: Arabach Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: а̀рапскӣ Roman: àrapskī (sh) Slovak: arabský (sk) Slovene: arabski (sl) Spanish: árabe (es) Swedish: arabisk (sv), arab- Tagalog: Arabo (tl) Tajik: арабӣ (tg) (arabi), тозӣ (tozi) (derogatory) Tatar: гарәп (tt) (ğäräp) Thai: อาหรับ (th) (aa-ràp) Turkish: Arap (tr) Turkmen: arap Ukrainian: ара́бський (uk) (arábsʹkyj) Urdu: عَرَبی (ur) ('arabī) Uzbek: arab (uz) Vietnamese: Á rập Yiddish: אַראַביש (yi) (arabish)

Noun

Arab (plural Arabs)

1. A Semitic person, whose forebears were from the Arabian Peninsula.
2. An inhabitant of Arabia or the Arab world.
   • 2023 October 29, Thomas L. Friedman, “Please, Israel, Don’t Get Lost in Hamas’s Tunnels”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 11 November 2023:

     This backlash also fails to take into account that Israel, for all its faults, is a multicultural society where almost half of graduating doctors today are Arabs or Druze.

3. A member of an Arabic-speaking community.
4. An Arabian horse.
   • 1887, Edward B. Baker, Sport in Bengal: and How, When, and where to Seek it, page 61:

     Having taken a very early breakfast, I mounted about eight o'clock my grey Arab, and without anything occurring worthy of note, killed the first three boars in the space of an hour, […]

5. (archaic) A street Arab.
   • a. 1892, Charles Spurgeon, a sermon

     You Christian people often see the little gutter children — the poor little arabs in the street — and you feel much pity for them, as well you may.

   • 1866, Punch, page 225:

     The other day I heard you complaining of the nuisance that small ragged street-boys are to you whenever you go out. […] You wished that some one would do something to clear away these little Arabs, as you are pleased to call them, so that a fine old English gentleman—as you are pleased to think yourself—might take his exercise in peace.

Synonyms

• (person): Ayrab, woolly-head (offensive), sand nigger (highly offensive)

Translations

Semitic person

Albanian: arab (sq), arabe (sq) f Arabic: عَرَبِيّ (ar) m (ʕarabiyy), عَرَبِيَّة (ar) f (ʕarabiyya), عَرَب (ar) (ʕarab) (collective) Aramaic: Syriac: ܛܝܝܐ, ܥܪܒܝܐ, ܥܖܒܝܐ (archaic) Armenian: արաբ (hy) (arab) Aromanian: arab m, arabã f Azerbaijani: ərəb Belarusian: ара́б m (aráb), ара́бка f (arábka) Bengali: আরব (bn) (arob) Bulgarian: ара́бин m (arábin), ара́бка m (arábka) Burmese: အာရပ် (arap) Catalan: àrab (ca) m or f Chinese: Cantonese: 阿拉伯人 (aa3 laai1 baak3 jan4) Dungan: араб (arab), арабжын (arabřɨn) Mandarin: 阿拉伯人 (zh) (Ālābórén) Corsican: àrabu m, àraba f, arabu (co) m, araba f Czech: Arab (cs) m, Arabka (cs) f Danish: araber c Dutch: Arabier (nl) m Esperanto: arabo Estonian: araablane (et) Faroese: arábi m or f Finnish: arabi (fi), arabialainen (fi) French: Arabe (fr) m or f Gagauz: arab, arap Georgian: არაბი (arabi) German: Araber (de) m, Araberin (de) f Greek: Άραβας (el) m (Áravas), Αράβισσα (el) f (Arávissa) Ancient: Ἄραψ m (Áraps) Hausa: Balarabe (ha) m, Balarabiya f Hebrew: עֲרָבִי (he) m (araví), עֲרָבִיָּה f (araviyá) Hindi: अरब (hi) m (arab), अरबी (hi) m (arbī) Hungarian: arab (hu) Irish: Arabach m Italian: arabo (it) m, araba (it) f Japanese: アラビア人 (ja) (アラビアじん, arabiajin) Kazakh: араб (kk) (arab) Khmer: អារ៉ាប់ (km) (ʼaarap) Korean: 아랍인 (ko) (arabin) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: ereb (ku) m or f Kyrgyz: араб (ky) (arab) Ladino: árabo m Lao: ອາຣັບ (ʼā rap), ອາຫຼັບ (ʼā lap) Latin: Arabes m pl Latvian: arābs m, arābiete f Lithuanian: arabas (lt) m, arabė (lt) f Macedonian: А́рап m (Árap), А́рапка f (Árapka) Malay: Arab Malayalam: അറബി (ml) (aṟabi) Maltese: Għarbi (mt) m, Għarbija f, Għarbin pl Manx: Arabagh m Maori: Ārapi Marathi: अरब (arab) Mongolian: Cyrillic: араб хүн (arab xün) Norwegian: Bokmål: araber (no) m, araberinne m or f, araberkvinne m or f Nynorsk: arabar m, arabarinne f, arabarkvinne f Old English: Arabisċ Old South Arabian: 𐩲𐩧𐩨 (ʿrb) Pashto: عرب (ps) m ('arab) Persian: عَرَب (fa) ('arab) Polish: Arab (pl) m, Arabka (pl) f, Arabus m Portuguese: árabe (pt) m or f Romanian: arab (ro) m, arabă (ro) f Russian: ара́б (ru) m (aráb), ара́бка (ru) f (arábka) Sardinian: arabu m, araba f Scottish Gaelic: Arabach m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: А̀рапин m, А̀рапкиња f Roman: Àrapin (sh) m, Àrapkinja f Slovak: Arab (sk) m, Arabka (sk) f Slovene: Arabec (sl) m, Arabka f Spanish: árabe (es) m or f Swahili: Mwarabu Swedish: arab (sv) c, arabiska (sv) c Tagalog: Arabo (tl) Tajik: араб (arab) Thai: อาหรับ (th) (aa-ràp), คนอาหรับ Tumbuka: Mrungwana class 1 Turkish: Arap (tr) Turkmen: arap Ukrainian: ара́б (uk) m (aráb), ара́бка (uk) f (arábka) Urdu: عَرَب m ('arab) Uyghur: ئەرەب (ereb) Uzbek: arab (uz) Vietnamese: người Á rập Yiddish: אַראַבער m (araber)

horse — see Arabian horse

Proper noun

Arab

1. A city in Marshall County, Alabama, United States.
2. (rare, dated) The Arabic language.
   • 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Numa ‘El Adrea’”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 120:

     Tarzan, who, by this time, with the assistance of Abdul, had picked up quite a smattering of Arab, questioned one of the younger men who had accompanied the sheik while the latter paid his respects to Captain Gerard.

Derived terms

• 48 Arab
• arabesque
• Arab fever
• Arabia
• Arabian
• Arabic
• Arabist
• Arabize
• non-Arab
• street Arab

Anagrams

• Raab, ABAR, Abra, abar, abra, Abar, arba, bara, Baar, raab

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈarap]
• Hyphenation: Arab

Noun

Arab m anim (female equivalent Arabka)

1. Arab (person)

   Synonym: arabáč

Declension

Declension of Arab (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	Arab	Arabové
genitive	Araba	Arabů
dative	Arabovi, Arabu	Arabům
accusative	Araba	Araby
vocative	Arabe	Arabové
locative	Arabovi, Arabu	Arabech
instrumental	Arabem	Araby

Related terms

• arabáč
• arabismus
• arabista
• arabistika
• arabizace
• arabizovat
• arabský
• arabština
• Arábie
• Saúdská Arábie

Further reading

• “Arab”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “Arab”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Arab”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay Arab, from Classical Malay عرب (Arab), from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈarab/ [ˈa.rap̚]
• Rhymes: -arab
• Syllabification: A‧rab

Adjective

Arab

1. Arabic

Noun

Arab

1. Arabian, Arab

Proper noun

Arab

1. Arabic, a major Semitic language originating from the Arabian peninsula
2. Arabia
3. (colloquial) ellipsis of Arab Saudi

Malay

Alternative forms

• عرب

Etymology

From Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈarab/ [ˈa.rap̚]
• Rhymes: -arap, -rap, -ap

Adjective

Arab

1. Arab (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations)

Derived terms

• bahasa Arab
• kuda Arab
• negeri Arab
• orang Arab
• Tanah Arab

Polish

Etymology

Internationalism; compare English Arab.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.rap/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -arap
• Syllabification: A‧rab
• Homophone: arab

Noun

Arab m pers (female equivalent Arabka)

1. Arab

Declension

Declension of Arab

	singular	plural
nominative	Arab	Arabowie
genitive	Araba	Arabów
dative	Arabowi	Arabom
accusative	Araba	Arabów
instrumental	Arabem	Arabami
locative	Arabie	Arabach
vocative	Arabie	Arabowie

Related terms

noun

• arabeska

Further reading

• Arab in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Arab in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Welsh

Etymology

Internationalism. Borrowed from English Arab, from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈarab/

Noun

Arab m (plural Arabs or Arabiaid, feminine Arabes)

1. Arab

   Synonym: Arabiad

Related terms

• Arabia (“Arabia”)
• Arabaidd (“Arab, Arabian”, adjective)
• Arabeg (“Arabic language”)

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “Arab”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies