Arab

Clipping of English Arabic or French arabe.

Arab

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

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

• 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

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^[1], volume 188, number 26, archived from the original on 26 August 2022, 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.

Arab (plural Arabs)

1. (strictly) A person of a Semitic ethnic group indigenous to the Arabian Peninsula.
2. (loosely) A person belonging to the ethnolinguistic group united by the Arabic language and cultural heritage, historically spread from Arabia to the Levant, Mesopotamia, the Maghreb, and Egypt.
   • 2023 October 29, Thomas L. Friedman, “Please, Israel, Don’t Get Lost in Hamas’s Tunnels”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →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. (uncommon) 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, […]

4. (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.

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

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.

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

Borrowed from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab).

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

Arab m anim (female equivalent Arabka)

1. Arab (person)

   Synonym: arabáč

• “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), 2008–2026

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

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

Arab

1. Arabic

Arab

1. Arabian, Arab

Arab

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

• عرب

From Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab).

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

Arab

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

Internationalism; compare English Arab.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.rap/

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

Arab m pers (female equivalent Arabka)

1. Arab

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈarab/

Arab m (plural Arabs or Arabiaid, feminine Arabes)

1. Arab

   Synonym: Arabiad

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

• 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