Arabic

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Alternative forms

• Arabick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin arabicus.

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈærəbɪk/
• (US) IPA: /ˈɛrəbɪk/, /ˈærəbɪk/

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Adjective

Arabic (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Arab countries or cultural behaviour (see also Arab as an adjective).

Translations

of, from, or pertaining to Arab countries or cultural behaviour

• Albanian: Arabik (sq)
• Arabic: عربي (ar) (ʕárabi)
• Armenian: արաբական (hy) (arabakan)
• Asturian: árabe (ast), arábicu (ast), arábigu (ast)
• Catalan: àrab (ca), aràbic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿拉伯的 (cmn) (ālābó-de)

• Czech: arabský (cs) m
• Danish: arabisk (da) n
• Dutch: Arabisch (nl), Arabische (nl)
• Esperanto: araba (eo)
• Finnish: arabialainen (fi)
• French: arabe (fr)
• Galician: árabe (gl), arábigo (gl), arábico (gl)
• German: arabisch (de)
• Greek: αραβικός (el) (aravikós)
• Hebrew: עֲרָבִי (he) (araví) m, עֲרָבִית (he) (aravít) f
• Hindi: अरबी (hi) (arabī)
• Ido: Arabiana (io), Araba (io)
• Interlingua: arabe (ia), arabic (ia)
• Italian: arabo (it)
• Japanese: アラビアの (ja) (Arabia no)

• Ladino:

  Roman: árabo

• Latvian: arābu (lv), arābisks (lv)
• Macedonian: арапски (mk) (árapski) m
• Malay: Arab (ms)
• Maltese: Għarbi (mt) m, Għarbija (mt) f
• Marathi: अरबी (mr) (arabī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: arabisk (nb)

  Nynorsk: arabisk (nn)

• Persian: عَرَبی (fa) (æræbi)
• Polish: arabski (pl)
• Portuguese: árabe (pt), arábico (pt)
• Russian: арабский (ru) (arábskij) m
• Scottish Gaelic: Arabach (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: арапски (sh) m

  Roman: arapski (sh) m

• Spanish: árabe (es), arábigo (es)
• Swahili: kiarabu (sw)
• Swedish: arabisk (sv)
• Turkish: Arap (tr)

Proper noun

Arabic

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 alphabet used to write the Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu, and Uyghur languages, among others.

Derived terms

• Arabic numeral
• Arabic script
• Arabic scale
• Hispano-Arabic
• Mozarabic

Translations

language

• Albanian: gjuha arabe (sq)
• Arabic: العربية (ar) (al-ʿarabíyya) f, عربي (ar) (ʿárabiyy) m, اللغة العربية (ar) (al-lúġa al-ʿarabíyya) f

  Egyptian Arabic: عربى (ʿárabi) m

• Armenian: արաբերեն (hy) (araberen)
• Asturian: árabe (ast) m, arábicu (ast) m, arábigu (ast) m
• Basque: arabiera (eu)
• Bengali: আরবি ভাষা (bn) (Arôbi bhasha)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿拉伯語 (cmn), 阿拉伯语 (cmn) (Ālābó-yǔ), 阿拉伯文 (cmn) (Ālābó-wén)

• Czech: arabština (cs) f, arabský jazyk (cs) m
• Danish: arabisk (da)
• Dutch: Arabisch (nl) n
• Finnish: arabia (fi)
• French: arabe (fr) m
• Galician: árabe (gl) m, arábigo (gl) m, arábico (gl) m
• German: Arabisch (de) n
• Greenlandic: Arabiamiutut (kl)
• Hebrew: עֲרָבִית (he) (aravít) f, עֲרָבִי (he) (araví) m
• Hindi: अरबी (hi) (arabī) f
• Icelandic: arabíska (is)
• Ido: arab (io)
• Indonesian: bahasa arab
• Interlingua: arabe (ia)
• Italian: arabo (it)
• Japanese: アラビア語 (ja) (Arabia-go)
• Jèrriais: Arabe m

• Khmer: អារ៉ាប់ (km)
• Korean: 아랍 (ko) (Arap), 아랍어 (ko) (Arab-eo)
• Latvian: arābu valoda (lv) f, arābu (lv)
• Limburgish: Arabisj (li) n
• Macedonian: арапски (mk) (árapski) m
• Malay: bahasa Arab
• Maltese: l-Għarbi (mt)
• Marathi: अरबी (mr) (arabī) f
• Navajo: Ásáí bizaad
• Persian: عَرَبی (fa) ('arabi)
• Polish: arabski (pl) m, arabszczyzna (pl) f
• Portuguese: árabe (pt) m
• Russian: арабский язык (arábskij jazýk) m, арабский (ru) (arábskij)
• Scottish Gaelic: Arabais (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: арапски (sh) m

  Roman: arapski (sh) m

• Sinhalese: අරාබි (si) (arābi), අරාබි භාෂාව (si) (arābi bhāṣāva)
• Spanish: árabe (es) m
• Swahili: kiarabu (sw)
• Swedish: arabiska (sv)
• Tajik: забони арабӣ (tg) (zaboni arabī), арабӣ (tg) (arabī)
• Thai: อารบิก (th) (aarábìk), ภาษาอาหรับ (th) (paasăa aaràp)
• Turkish: Arapça (tr)
• Urdu: عربی (ur) (arabī) f
• Uyghur: ئەرەبچە (ug) (erebche)
• Vietnamese: tiếng A-rập (vi), tiếng Ả Rập (vi)

alphabet

• Armenian: արաբերեն (hy) (araberen)
• Basque: arabiar (eu)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿拉伯字母 (cmn) (ālābó-zìmǔ)

• Finnish: arabia (fi)
• French: arabe (fr)
• German: Arabisch (de)
• Ido: arab (io)
• Indonesian: huruf arab
• Interlingua: arabe (ia)
• Italian: arabo (it)
• Japanese: アラビア文字 (ja) (Arabia-moji)
• Khmer: អារ៉ាប់ (km)

• Macedonian: арапска азбука (mk) (árapska ázbuka) f, арабица (mk) (arábica) f
• Malay: abjad Arab (ms)
• Maltese: Għarbija (mt)
• Marathi: अरबी (mr) (arabī)
• Portuguese: árabe (pt) m
• Russian: арабский алфавит (arábskij alfavít) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: арапски (sh) m, арабица (sh) f, аребица (sh) f

  Roman: arapski (sh) m, arabica (sh) f, arebica (sh) f

• Spanish: árabe (es) m
• Swahili: kiarabu (sw)
• Turkish: Arap (tr)

See also

Wikibooks

• Wiktionary's coverage of Arabic terms
• Appendix:Arabic Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Arabic
• Arabic edition of Wiktionary
• Arabic language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Arabic language
• Appendix:Arabic script
• Arab
• Arabian

External links

• ISO 639-1 code ar, ISO 639-3 code ara
• Ethnologue entry for Arabic macrolanguage, ara It's a family or related languages. The individual ones are:

Ethnologue entry for Algerian Arabic, arq Ethnologue entry for Algerian Saharan Arabic, aao Ethnologue entry for Babalia Creole Arabic, bbz Ethnologue entry for Baharna Arabic, abv Ethnologue entry for Chadian Arabic, shu Ethnologue entry for Cypriot Arabic, acy Ethnologue entry for Dhofari Arabic, adf Ethnologue entry for Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic, avl Ethnologue entry for Egyptian Arabic, arz Ethnologue entry for Gulf Arabic, afb Ethnologue entry for Hadrami Arabic, ayh Ethnologue entry for Hijazi Arabic, acw Ethnologue entry for Libyan Arabic, ayl Ethnologue entry for Mesopotamian Arabic, acm Ethnologue entry for Moroccan Arabic, ary

Ethnologue entry for Najdi Arabic, ars Ethnologue entry for North Levantine Arabic, apc Ethnologue entry for North Mesopotamian Arabic, ayp Ethnologue entry for Omani Arabic, acx Ethnologue entry for Saidi Arabic, aec Ethnologue entry for Sanaani Arabic, ayn Ethnologue entry for Shihhi Arabic, ssh Ethnologue entry for South Levantine Arabic, ajp Ethnologue entry for Standard Arabic, arb Ethnologue entry for Sudanese Arabic, apd Ethnologue entry for Sudanese Creole Arabic, pga Ethnologue entry for Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic, acq Ethnologue entry for Tajiki Arabic, abh Ethnologue entry for Tunisian Arabic, aeb Ethnologue entry for Uzbeki Arabic, auz

• Arabic–English Dictionary from Webster’s Online Dictionary