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Arabic
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arabic
English
ar
Alternative forms
en Arabical archaic
en Arabick obsolete
Etymology
en :bor la:Arabicus 1
From en la Arabicus, from en grc Ἀραβικός, from grc Ἄραψ Arab [from en ar عَرَب] grc 1 -ικός<pos:adjective suffix>. en Arab -ic.
Pronunciation
en /ˈæɹəbɪk/ RP,AU
en /ˈaɹəbɪk/ SSB,Northern England
en US
en /ˈæɹəbɪk/ nMmmm
en /ˈɛɹəbɪk/ Mmmm
en en-us-Arabic.ogg US,Mmmm
en /ˈaɾəbɪk/ Scotland,Wales
en /ˈɛɹəbək/ NZ
en India /ˈɐ.ɾɐ.bɪk/ /ˈæː.ɾɐ.bɪk/ /ɐˈɾæː.bɪk/
Adjective
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Related to the Arabic language.
en an Arabic translation; en nuances of Arabic inflection
en 2008 Abdallah Nacereddine To Be Oneself: The Tragicomedy of an Unfinished Life History 978-1-4670-8502-1 342 One day my UN students asked me, "Which is the Arabic country where the best Arabic is spoken?" I quickly replied, "Bosnia." They exclaimed, "But Bosnia is not an Arab country!"
en of numerals Expressed in a script that was developed in Arab lands (but is not always used in the Arabic language): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
en arabic#Adjective
en Roman#Adjective roman#Adjective
en Arabic numerals
Of, from, or pertaining to Arab countries or cultural behaviour (see also Arab as an adjective).
en 2012 Deborah Youdell Intersectionality and "Race" in Education Intelligibility, agency and the raced–nationed–religioned subjects of education 978-1-136-62899-3 202 White chalk on the fascia board above the Arabic-food stall reads "Lebanon" and "Lebs rule".
en proscribed of people Arab.
en 22 Feb 87 14 31 Gay Community News 5 Black, Gay and Red Dallas Williams I saw that in my workplace black co-workers had to unite with Arabic and white workers just to be able to win better wages and working conditions and certainly to be able to win a strike.
Usage notes
The adjective en Arabic is commonly used in reference to language, and in traditional phrases such as en Arabic numeral or en gum arabic. Its use is controversial and often deprecated in reference to people or countries, where the adjective en Arab is preferred.
Translations
of, from, or pertaining to Arab countries or cultural behaviour
Afrikaans: af Arabies
Albanian: sq arab
Amharic: am ዐረብኛ
Arabic: ar عَرَبِيّ
Egyptian Arabic: arz عربي ʕarabi
Moroccan Arabic: ary عربي ʕarbi
South Levantine Arabic: ajp عربي ʕarabi
Tunisian Arabic: aeb عربي ʕarbi
Armenian: hy արաբական
Assamese: as আৰবী
Asturian: ast árabe, ast arábicu, ast arábigu
Avar: av гӏараб
Azerbaijani: az ərəb
Bashkir: ba ғәрәп
Belarusian: be ара́бскі
Bengali: bn আরবি
Bulgarian: bg ара́бски
Burmese: my အာရပ်
Carpathian Rusyn: rue ара́бскый
Catalan: ca àrab, ca aràbic
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 阿拉伯
Dungan: dng араб
Eastern Min: cdo 阿拉伯
Hokkien: nan-hbl 阿拉伯 A-la-pek
Mandarin: cmn 阿拉伯
Wu: wuu 阿拉伯
Czech: cs arabský
Danish: da arabisk
Dhivehi: dv ޢަރަބި
Dutch: nl Arabisch
Esperanto: eo araba
Estonian: et araabia
Finnish: fi arabialainen
French: fr arabe
Galician: gl árabe, gl arábigo, gl arábico
Georgian: ka არაბული
German: de arabisch
Greek: el αραβικός
Ancient Greek: grc Ἀραβικός
Hebrew: he עֲרָבִי m araví, he עֲרָבִית f aravít
Hindi: hi अरबी, hi अरब
Hungarian: hu arab
Icelandic: is arabískur
Ido: io Arabiana, io Araba
Indonesian: id arab, id Arab
Interlingua: ia arabe, ia arabic
Irish: ga Arabach
Italian: it arabo
Japanese: ja アラビア アラビアの arabia no, ja アラブ アラブの arabu no
Kazakh: kk араб, kk арабы
Khmer: km អារ៉ាប់, km អារ៉ាប
Korean: ko 아랍 아랍-의, ko 아랍, ko 아라비아 아라비아-의
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr erebî
Kyrgyz: ky араб
Ladino:
Latin: lad árabo
Lao: lo ອາຫລັບ, lo ອາລັບ, lo ອາຣັບ
Latin: la Arabicus
Latvian: lv arābu, lv arābisks
Lithuanian: lt arabų, lt arabiškas
Macedonian: mk арапски
Malay: ms Arab
Malayalam: ml അറബി
Maltese: mt Għarbi m, mt Għarbija f
Manx: gv Arabagh
Marathi: mr अरबी
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn араб
Mongolian script: mn ᠠᠷᠠᠪ
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb arabisk
Nynorsk: nn arabisk
Old English: ang Arabisċ
Pannonian Rusyn: rsk арабски
Pashto: ps عربي 'arabí
Persian:
Dari: prs عَرَب, prs عَرَبِی
Iranian Persian: fa-ira عَرَب, fa-ira عَرَبی
Polish: pl arabski
Portuguese: pt árabe, pt arábico
Romanian: ro arab, ro arabic, ro arăbesc
Russian: ru ара́бский
Scots: sco Arabic, sco Araibic
Scottish Gaelic: gd Arabach
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh а̀рапскӣ
Latin: sh àrapskī
Slovak: sk arabský
Slovene: sl arabski
Spanish: es árabe, es arábigo, es arabesco
Swahili: sw kiarabu
Swedish: sv arabisk
Tagalog: tl arabe
Tajik: tg арабӣ
Tamil: ta அரபு
Tatar: tt гарәп
Thai: th อาหรับ, th อารบิก
Tibetan: bo ཨ་རབ with certain nouns only, bo ཨ་རབ་ཀྱི general adj. form
Turkish: tr Arap
Turkmen: tk arap
Ukrainian: uk ара́бський
Urdu: ur عَرَبی, ur عَرَب
Uyghur: ug ئەرەب
Uzbek: uz arab
Vietnamese: vi A-rập
Wolaytta: wal Arabattuwa
Yiddish: yi אַראַביש
Proper noun
en Q13955A major Semitic language originating from the Arabian peninsula, and now spoken natively (in various spoken dialects, all sharing a single highly conservative standardized literary form) throughout large sections of the Middle East and North Africa.
en Egyptian Arabic; en Eastern Arabic; en translated from the Arabic
en 1924 Herbert Weir Smyth Aeschylean Tragedy VII. Orestea. II: The Libation-Bearers 180-181 ‘Kinsman’ and ‘avenger’ meet in the same word in Hebrew and in Arabic; nor did Greek tribal custom keep them separate.
en John Malathronas Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn? w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/learn-a-foreign-language-wellness 2021-04-25 Classical Arabic – the language of the Qur’an – will make you understood everywhere, but colloquial Arabic may be more useful, because once the locals start conversing with each other, you’ll lose the plot. https://web.archive.org/web/20220322023413/https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/learn-a-foreign-language-wellness
en 2023 Isabella Hammad Enter Ghost Jonathan Cape 74 We’d gone to Arabic school as children and taken lessons in the summer holidays, and I still read the news in Arabic, but it wasn’t like I practised reciting the written language any more, with its complex rhythms and grammatical structures.
The Aramaic-derived script used to write the Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu, and Uyghur languages, among others.
en w:Arabic script
en w:Arabic alphabet
Derived terms
en Franco-Arabic Indo-Arabic Arabic numeral learn Arabic Arabic scale Arabic studies Arabical Arabically Saʽidi Arabic Ṣaʽīdi Arabic Arabicization Bedawi Arabic Arabicness Egyptian Arabic Chadian Arabic Tajiki Arabic Quranic Arabic Classical Arabic Mesopotamian Arabic Levantine Arabic Andalusian Arabic Libyan Arabic Moroccan Arabic Modern Standard Arabic Algerian Arabic Hijazi Arabic Eastern Arabic North Levantine Arabic Old Arabic Omani Arabic Sulaimitian Arabic Siculo-Arabic Cypriot Arabic Dhofari Arabic Moorish Arabic Spanish Arabic Sudanese Arabic Gulf Arabic Juba Arabic Palestinian Arabic South Sudanese Arabic Tunisian Arabic Hispano-Arabic Mozarabic North Mesopotamian Arabic Perso-Arabic Upper Egyptian Arabic
Related terms
language en Classical Arabic, en Modern Standard Arabic
Translations
language
Akan: ak Kramo kasa
Albanian: sq gjuha arabe f, sq arabisht
Amharic: am ዓረብኛ
Arabic: ar عربية الْعَرَبِيَّة f, ar اللُّغَة الْعَرَبِيَّة f, ar عَرَبِيّ m colloquial
Algerian Arabic: arq عربية العربية f el-ʕarbiyya
Baharna Arabic: abv
Chadian Arabic: shu
Dhofari Arabic: adf
Egyptian Arabic: arz عربى m ʕarabi
Juba Arabic: pga Arabi
Moroccan Arabic: ary عربية العربية f el-ʕarbiyya
Najdi Arabic: ars
North Levantine Arabic: apc عربي m ʕarabi
North Mesopotamian Arabic: ayp
Aramaic:
Syriac: syc ܥܪܒܝܐ, syc ܥܪܒܝܬ
Armenian: hy արաբերեն
Assamese: as আৰবী ভাষা
Asturian: ast árabe m, ast arábicu m, ast arábigu m
Azerbaijani:
Cyrillic: az әрәб, az әрәб дили, az әрәбҹә
Latin: az ərəb, az ərəb dili, az ərəbcə
Bashkir: ba ғәрәп теле, ba ғәрәпсә
Basque: eu arabiera
Belarusian: be ара́бская мо́ва f, be арабскі f ара́бская
Bengali: bn আরবি ভাষা
Bulgarian: bg ара́бски ези́к m, bg ара́бски m ези́к
Burmese: my အာရပ်ဘာသာ, my အာရပ်ဘာသာစကား
Carpathian Rusyn: rue ара́бскый язык m
Catalan: ca àrab m
Cherokee: chr ᎠᎸᎠᎳᏈᏯ, chr ᎡᎳᏈ
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 阿拉伯文 aa3 laai1 baak3 man4-2, yue 阿拉伯話 aa3 laai1 baak3 waa6-2
Hokkien: nan-hbl 阿拉伯語 A-la-pek-gú
Mandarin: cmn 阿拉伯語 ālābóyǔ, cmn 阿拉伯文 ālābówén
Comorian:
Ngazidja Comorian: zdj shiaraɓu c7
Corsican: co arabu m, co àrabu m
Czech: cs arabština f, cs arabský jazyk m
Danish: da arabisk
Dutch: nl Arabisch n
Esperanto: eo la araba
Estonian: et araabia keel
Faroese: fo arabiskt
Finnish: fi arabia
French: fr arabe m
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Arabysk n
Galician: gl árabe m, gl arábigo m, gl arábico m
Georgian: ka არაბული ენა
German: de Arabisch n, de arabische Sprache n
Greek: el αραβικά n-p, el αράβικα n-p informally, el αραβική f formally
Greenlandic: kl arabiamiutut, kl araberisut
Hausa: ha arabiyya
Hebrew: he עֲרָבִית f aravít, he עֲרָבִי m araví
Hindi: hi अरबी f, hi अरबी भाषा f arabī bhāṣā
Hungarian: hu arab
Icelandic: is arabíska
Ido: io Arabiana, io Araba
Indonesian: id bahasa arab
Interlingua: ia arabe
Irish: ga Araibis f
Italian: it arabo m
Japanese: ja アラビア語 アラビアご, arabiago
Kashmiri: ks عَربی زَبان
Kazakh: kk араб тілі
Khmer: km អារ៉ាប់, km ភាសាអារ៉ាប់ phiəsaa ʼaarap
Korean: ko 아랍어
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr erebî, kmr zimanê erebî m
Kyrgyz: ky араб тили, ky арабча
Lao: lo ພາສາອາຣັບ phā sā ʼā rap
Latin: la arabice m
Latvian: lv arābu valoda f, lv arābu
Limburgish: li Arabisj n
Lithuanian: lt arabų, lt arabų kalba
Low German:
German Low German: nds-de Araabsch n Northern Low German
Macedonian: mk арапски m
Malay: ms bahasa Arab
Maltese: l-mt Għarbi m
Manx: gv Arabish f
Marathi: mr अरबी f
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn араб хэл
Navajo: nv Ásáí bizaad
Norman: nrf Arabe m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb arabisk m
Nynorsk: nn arabisk m
Occitan: oc arabi m, oc arab m
Old English: ang Arabisċ n
Pashto: ps عربي 'arabí, ps عربي ژبه f žᶕba 'arabí
Persian:
Iranian Persian: fa-ira عَرَبی, fa-ira زَبانِ عَرَبی
Classical Persian: fa-cls عَرَبِی, fa-cls زَبَانِ عَرَبِی
Polish: pl arabski m, pl arabszczyzna f
Portuguese: pt árabe m
Punjabi: pa ਅਰਬੀ
Western Punjabi: pnb عربی
Romanian: ro arabă
Russian: ru ара́бский язы́к m, ru ара́бский m язы́к
Sami:
Northern Sami: se arábagiella
Scots: sco Arabic, sco Araibic
Scottish Gaelic: gd Arabais f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh а̀рапскӣ m
Latin: sh àrapskī m
Sindhi: sd عربي ٻولي
Sinhalese: si අරාබි, si අරාබි භාෂාව
Slovak: sk arabčina f
Slovene: sl arabščina f
Spanish: es árabe m, es arábigo m, es algarabía f
Swahili: sw kiarabu
Swedish: sv arabiska
Tajik: tg забони арабӣ, tg арабӣ
Talysh: tly ərəbi zyvon
Tamil: ta அரபு மொழி, ta அரபி
Tatar: tt гарәп теле, tt гарәпча
Telugu: te అరబ్బీ
Thai: th อารบิก, th ภาษาอาหรับ paa-sǎa aa-ràp
Tigrinya: ti ዓረብ
Turkish: tr Arapça
Ottoman Turkish: ota عربجه ʿArabca
Turkmen: tk arap dili
Ukrainian: uk ара́бська мо́ва f, uk арабський f ара́бська мо́ва
Urdu: ur عَرَبی f, ur عَرَبی زُبان f, ur عَرَبی زَبان f
Uyghur: ug ئەرەبچە, ug ئەرەب تىلى
Uzbek:
Cyrillic: uz арабча, uz араб тили
Latin: uz arabcha, uz arab tili
Vietnamese: vi tiếng A-rập, vi tiếng Ả Rập
West Flemish: vls Aroabiesch n
Yiddish: yi אַראַביש n
alphabet
Afrikaans: af Arabiese alfabet
Arabic: ar أَبْجَدِيَّة عَرَبِيَّة f
Baharna Arabic: abv
Armenian: hy արաբական գիր
Azerbaijani:
Cyrillic: az әрәб, az әрәб әлифбасы
Latin: az ərəb, az ərəb əlifbası
Bashkir: ba ғәрәп әлифбаһы, ba ғәрәп яҙыуы
Basque: eu arabiar
Belarusian: be ара́бскі алфаві́т m, be ара́бскае пісьмо́ n, be ара́біца f, be вязь f
Bulgarian: bg ара́бска а́збука f
Burmese: my အာရပ်အက္ခရာ
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 阿拉伯字母 ālābó zìmǔ
Finnish: fi arabia
French: fr arabe m, fr alphabet arabe m
Galician: gl árabe m
Georgian: ka არაბული დამწერლობა
German: de Arabisch n, de arabisches Alphabet n
Hindi: hi अरबी लिपि f, hi अरबी f
Ido: io arab
Indonesian: id huruf arab, id abjad arab
Interlingua: ia arabe
Irish: ga script Araibise f
Italian: it arabo
Japanese: ja アラビア文字 arabia moji
Kazakh: kk араб жазуы
Khmer: km អក្សរអារ៉ាប់ ʼɑksɑɑ ʼaarap
Korean: ko 아랍 문자(文字)
Lao: lo ອັກສອນອາຣັບ ak sǭn ʼā rap
Macedonian: mk арапска азбука f, mk арабица f
Malay: ms abjad Arab
Maltese: mt Għarbija f
Marathi: mr अरबी
Persian:
Iranian Persian: fa-ira اَلِفْبایِ عَرَبی
Portuguese: pt árabe m
Russian: ru ара́бский алфави́т m, ru ара́бское письмо́ n, ru ара́бский m, ru ара́бица f, ru вязь f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh а̀рапскӣ m, sh ара̀бица f, sh арѐбица f
Latin: sh àrapskī m, sh aràbica f, sh arèbica f
Spanish: es árabe m, es alifato m
Swahili: sw kiarabu
Tajik: tg ҳуруфи арабӣ
Thai: th อักษรอาหรับ àk-sŏn aa-ràp
Turkish: tr Arap, tr Arap alfabesi
Ukrainian: uk ара́бський алфаві́т m, uk ара́бське письмо́ n, uk ара́биця f, uk в'язь f
Uzbek:
Cyrillic: uz араб алифбоси
Latin: uz arab alifbosi
See also
ar
Arabic edition of Wiktionary
Arabic language
Appendix:Arabic script
en Arab
en Arabian
Noun
A variety of the Arabic language.
en He was speaking an Arabic that they'd never heard before and could barely understand.
en 2004-04-22 Peter T. Daniels Taiwanese and their language soc.culture.china https://groups.google.com/g/soc.culture.china/c/GyG7vTht1j4/m/WjlzI6wXmJYJ Classic Arabic didn't "turn into" the various Arabic vernaculars. There is disagreement over whether the range of spoken Arabics all have a single ancestor (seems unlikely), but Classical Arabic is a somewhat artificial creation based on at least two dialects.
en proscribed An Arab.
en 2000-07-20 Topprolmc OT - I participated in an obscene act today! rec.motorcycles.harley https://groups.google.com/g/rec.motorcycles.harley/c/2jCK59w5ZKM/m/WP202TJGZF0J That's the majority of working N'Yawkers. Blacks and Hispanics outnumber the arabics.
en Arabic numeral.
en arabic#Noun
en A novel writer will usually spell out Arabics from one to nine, to accord with the tone of the genre.
Further reading
1 ar ara
ara, a macrolanguage including:
arq Algerian Arabic
aao Algerian Saharan Arabic
bbz Babalia Creole Arabic
abv Baharna Arabic
shu Chadian Arabic
acy Cypriot Arabic
adf Dhofari Arabic
avl Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic
arz Egyptian Arabic
afb Gulf Arabic
ayh Hadrami Arabic
acw Hijazi Arabic
ayl Libyan Arabic
acm Mesopotamian Arabic
ary Moroccan Arabic
ars Najdi Arabic
apc North Levantine Arabic
ayp North Mesopotamian Arabic
acx Omani Arabic
aec Saidi Arabic
ayn Sanaani Arabic
ssh Shihhi Arabic
ajp South Levantine Arabic
arb Standard Arabic
apd Sudanese Arabic
pga Sudanese Creole Arabic
acq Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic
abh Tajiki Arabic
aeb Tunisian Arabic
auz Uzbeki Arabic
Anagrams
en aabcir Barcia carabi
en Languages Alphabets Arabic