English Explanatory Dictionary

Arabic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Related to the Arabic language.
  2. 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.
  3. Of, from, or pertaining to Arab countries or cultural behaviour (see also Arab as an adjective).
  4. Arab.
name
  1. A 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.
  2. The Aramaic-derived script used to write the Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu, and Uyghur languages, among others.
noun
  1. A variety of the Arabic language.
  2. An Arab.
  3. Ellipsis of Arabic numeral.
noun
  1. Ellipsis of gum arabic.
  2. Ellipsis of arabic numeral.
adj
  1. Only used in arabic acid
  2. Only used in arabic numeral

Pronunciation

/ˈæɹ.ə.bɪk/ /ˈɛɹ.ə.bɪk/ en-us-Arabic.ogg /ərəˈbɪk/ /ˈarəbɪk/ /əˈrabɪk/ /ˈæɹəbɪk/

Word forms

Arabic Arabical Arabick Arabics

Etymology

Etymology tree Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab)bor. Ancient Greek Ἄρᾰψ (Árăps) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek Ἀραβικός (Arabikós)bor. Latin arabicusbor. English Arabic From Latin arabicus, from Ancient Greek Ἀραβικός (Arabikós), from Ἄραψ (Áraps, “Arab”) [from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab)] + -ικός (-ikós, adjective suffix). By surface analysis, Arab + -ic.

Synonyms

w:Arabic script w:Arabic alphabet arabic gum

Related words

arabic Classical Arabic Modern Standard Arabic Wiktionary’s coverage of Arabic terms Arab Arabian

Derived words

Algerian Arabic Andalusian Arabic Arabical Arabically Arabicization Arabicness Arabic numeral Arabic scale Arabic studies Bedawi Arabic Chadian Arabic Classical Arabic Cypriot Arabic Dhofari Arabic Eastern Arabic Egyptian Arabic Franco-Arabic Gulf Arabic Hijazi Arabic Hispano-Arabic Indo-Arabic Juba Arabic learn Arabic Levantine Arabic Libyan Arabic Mesopotamian Arabic Modern Standard Arabic Moorish Arabic Moroccan Arabic Mozarabic North Levantine Arabic North Mesopotamian Arabic Old Arabic Omani Arabic Palestinian Arabic Perso-Arabic Quranic Arabic Ṣaʽīdi Arabic Saʽidi Arabic Siculo-Arabic South Sudanese Arabic Spanish Arabic Sudanese Arabic Sulaimitian Arabic Tajiki Arabic Tunisian Arabic Upper Egyptian Arabic arabin

Translations

Afrikaans: Arabiese alfabet Arabic: أَبْجَدِيَّة عَرَبِيَّة Armenian: արաբական գիր Azerbaijani: ərəb Azerbaijani: ərəb əlifbası Bashkir: ғәрәп әлифбаһы Bashkir: ғәрәп яҙыуы Basque: arabiar Belarusian: ара́бскі алфаві́т Belarusian: ара́бскае пісьмо́ Belarusian: ара́біца Belarusian: вязь Bulgarian: ара́бска а́збука Chinese Mandarin: 阿拉伯字母 Finnish: arabia French: arabe French: alphabet arabe Galician: árabe Georgian: არაბული დამწერლობა German: Arabisch German: arabisches Alphabet Hindi: अरबी लिपि Hindi: अरबी Ido: arab Indonesian: huruf arab Indonesian: abjad arab Interlingua: arabe Irish: script Araibise Italian: arabo Japanese: アラビア文字 Kazakh: араб жазуы Khmer: អារ៉ាប់ Korean: 아랍 문자 Macedonian: арапска азбука Macedonian: арабица Malay: abjad Arab Maltese: Għarbija Marathi: अरबी Persian: اَلِفْبایِ عَرَبی Portuguese: árabe Russian: ара́бский алфави́т Russian: ара́бское письмо́ Russian: ара́бский Russian: ара́бица Russian: вязь Serbo-Croatian: а̀рапскӣ Serbo-Croatian: ара̀бица Serbo-Croatian: арѐбица Serbo-Croatian: àrapskī Serbo-Croatian: aràbica Serbo-Croatian: arèbica Spanish: árabe Spanish: alifato Swahili: kiarabu Tajik: ҳуруфи арабӣ Thai: อักษรอาหรับ Turkish: Arap Turkish: Arap alfabesi Ukrainian: ара́бський алфаві́т Ukrainian: ара́бське письмо́ Ukrainian: ара́биця Ukrainian: в'язь Uzbek: arab alifbosi
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