ع ر ب

See also: ع ز ب, عرب, عزت, غرت, غرب, عزب, and غژب

Arabic

Root

ع ر ب • (ʕ-r-b)

1. forms words relating to Arabic and Arabs

Derived terms

Verbs

• Form II: عَرَّبَ (ʕarraba, “to make Arabic, translate into Arabic, express”)
  • Verbal noun: تَعْرِيب (taʕrīb, “Arabicizing, Arabization, translation into Arabic, adoption of loanwords into Arabic”)
  • Active participle: مُعَرِّب (muʕarrib, “translator into Arabic”)
  • Passive participle: مُعَرَّب (muʕarrab, “Arabicized, translated into Arabic, loanword”)
• Form IV: أَعْرَبَ (ʔaʕraba, “to make Arabic, give an Arabic form to, express clearly, declare, proclaim; to use the grammatical endings”)
  • Verbal noun: إِعْرَاب (ʔiʕrāb, “declaration, proclamation, expression, grammatical endings”)
  • Active participle: مُعْرِب (muʕrib)
  • Passive participle: مُعْرَب (muʕrab, “inflected with endings”)
• Form V: تَعَرَّبَ (taʕarraba, “to become an Arab, assimilate or naturalize to the Arabs”)
  • Verbal noun: تَعَرُّب (taʕarrub)
  • Active participle: مُتَعَرِّب (mutaʕarrib, “Arabicized, naturalized as an Arab”)
• Form X: اِسْتَعْرَبَ (istaʕraba, “to become an Arab, assimilate or naturalize to the Arabs”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِعْرَاب (istiʕrāb)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَعْرِب (mustaʕrib, “Arabist”)

Nouns

• عَرَب (ʕarab, “Arabs”)
  • عَرَبِيّ (ʕarabiyy, “Arab, Arabic”)
  • الْعَرَبِيَّة (al-ʕarabiyya, “Arabic language”)
  • أَعْرَابِيّ (ʔaʕrābiyy, “Bedouin”)
• عَرَّاب (ʕarrāb, “godfather; translator into Arabic”)
  • عَرَّابَة (ʕarrāba, “godmother”)
• عُرُوبَة (ʕurūba, “Arabism, Arabdom, Arab character”)

Root

ع ر ب • (ʕ-r-b)

1. forms words related to forceful behavior

Etymology

Compare Ugaritic 𐎓𐎗𐎁 (ʿrb, “to enter”), Akkadian 𒆭𒊏 (KU₄.RA /⁠erēbu⁠/, “to come in, specifically of money, goods, caravan, month, season, water: to come in , to arrive , to flow in”).

Derived terms

Verbs

• Form I: عَرَبَ (ʕaraba, “to be eager, to flow violently”)
  • Verbal noun: عَرْب (ʕarb), عَرَب (ʕarab)
  • Active participle: عَارِب (ʕārib)
• Form II: عَرَّبَ (ʕarraba, “to talk dirty against someone, to scold, to chide”)
  • Verbal noun: تَعْرِيب (taʕrīb)
  • Active participle: مُعَرِّب (muʕarrib)
  • Passive participle: مُعَرَّب (muʕarrab)
• Form IV: أَعْرَبَ (ʔaʕraba, “to talk obliquely about something”)
  • Verbal noun: إِعْرَاب (ʔiʕrāb)
  • Active participle: مُعْرِب (muʕrib)
  • Passive participle: مُعْرَب (muʕrab)

Nouns

• عَرِب (ʕarib, “a pond with much water”)
• عَرَبَة (ʕaraba, “swift river; vehicle”)
• عَرَابَة (ʕarāba, “obscene speech”)
• عَرَبِيَّة (ʕarabiyya, “carriage, coach”)
• عَرْبَجِيّ (ʕarbajiyy, “cabman”)
• عَرْبَخَانَة (ʕarbaḵāna, “car shed, coach house”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1835) “عرب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 129–130
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “عرب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN