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Etymology
From Latin arabicus , from Arabia + -icus , from Ancient Greek Ἀραβία ( Arabía ) , ultimately from the Arabic عَرَب ( ʕarab ) .
Pronunciation
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Adjective
Arabic (not comparable )
Related to the Arabic language .
2008 , Abdallah Nacereddine, To Be Oneself: The Tragicomedy of an Unfinished Life History , →ISBN , page 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!"
Of, from, or pertaining to Arab countries or cultural behaviour (see also Arab as an adjective).
2012 , Deborah Youdell, “Intelligibility, agency and the raced–nationed–religioned subjects of education”, in Intersectionality and "Race" in Education , →ISBN , page 202 :
White chalk on the fascia board above the Arabic-food stall reads "Lebanon " and "Lebs rule ".
Usage notes
The adjective Arabic is commonly used in reference to language, and in traditional phrases such as Arabic numeral or gum arabic . Its use is controversial and often deprecated in reference to people or countries, where the adjective Arab is preferred.
Translations
of, from, or pertaining to Arab countries or cultural behaviour
Albanian: arab (sq)
Arabic: عَرَبِيّ (ar) ( ʕarabiyy )
Armenian: արաբական (hy) ( arabakan )
Assamese: আৰবী ( arobi )
Asturian: árabe (ast) , arábicu (ast) , arábigu (ast)
Avar: гӏараб ( ʻarab )
Azerbaijani: ərəb
Bashkir: ғәрәп ( ğərəp )
Belarusian: ара́бскі ( arábski )
Bengali: আরবি (bn) ( arobi )
Bulgarian: ара́бски (bg) ( arábski )
Burmese: အာရပ် ( arap )
Catalan: àrab (ca) , aràbic
Chinese:
Cantonese: 阿拉伯 ( aa3 laai1 baak3 )
Dungan: араб ( arab )
Mandarin: 阿拉伯 (zh) ( ālābó )
Min Nan: 阿拉伯 ( A-la-pek )
Czech: arabský (cs) m
Danish: arabisk (da) n
Dhivehi: ޢަރަބި (dv) ( ʿarabi )
Dutch: Arabisch (nl)
Esperanto: araba (eo)
Estonian: araabia (et)
Finnish: arabialainen (fi)
French: arabe (fr)
Galician: árabe (gl) , arábigo , arábico
Georgian: არაბული (ka) ( arabuli )
German: arabisch (de)
Greek: αραβικός (el) ( aravikós )
Ancient: Ἀραβικός ( Arabikós )
Hebrew: עֲרָבִי (he) m ( araví ) , עֲרָבִית (he) f ( aravít )
Hindi: अरबी (hi) ( arbī ) , अरब (hi) ( arab )
Hungarian: arab (hu)
Icelandic: arabískur (is)
Ido: Arabiana (io) , Araba (io)
Indonesian: arab (id) , Arab (id)
Interlingua: arabe , arabic
Irish: Arabach
Italian: arabo (it)
Japanese: アラビアの ( arabia no ) , アラブの (ja) ( arabu no )
Kazakh: араб ( arab ) , арабы ( araby )
Khmer: អារ៉ាប់ (km) ( ʼaarap ) , អារ៉ាប ( ʼaaraap )
Korean: 아랍의 ( arabui ) , 아랍 ( arap )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: erebî (ku)
Kyrgyz: араб (ky) ( arab )
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Ladino:
Roman: árabo
Lao: ອາຣັບ ( ʼā rap ) , ອາຫລັບ ( ʼā lap ) , ອາລັບ ( ʼā lap )
Latin: arabicus
Latvian: arābu , arābisks
Lithuanian: arabų (lt) , arabiškas (lt)
Macedonian: арапски ( arapski )
Malay: Arab
Malayalam: അറബി (ml) ( aṟabi )
Maltese: Għarbi (mt) m , Għarbija f
Manx: Arabagh
Marathi: अरबी ( arbī )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: араб ( arab )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: arabisk (no)
Nynorsk: arabisk
Old English: Arabisċ
Pashto: عربي (ps) ( 'arabí )
Persian: عرب (fa) ( 'arab ) , عربی (fa) ( 'arabi )
Polish: arabski (pl)
Portuguese: árabe (pt) , arábico (pt)
Romanian: arab (ro) , arabic (ro) , arăbesc (ro)
Russian: ара́бский (ru) ( arábskij )
Rusyn: ара́бскый ( arábskŷj )
Scots: Arabic , Araibic
Scottish Gaelic: Arabach
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: а̀рапскӣ
Roman: àrapskī (sh)
Slovak: arabský (sk)
Slovene: arabski (sl)
Spanish: árabe (es) , arábigo (es)
Swahili: kiarabu (sw)
Swedish: arabisk (sv)
Tagalog: arabe (tl)
Tajik: арабӣ (tg) ( arabi )
Tatar: гарәп (tt) ( ğaräp )
Thai: อาหรับ (th) ( aa-ràp ) , อารบิก ( aa-rá-bìk )
Turkish: Arap (tr)
Turkmen: arap
Ukrainian: ара́бський (uk) ( arábsʹkyj )
Urdu: عربی (ur) ( 'arabī )
Uyghur: ئەرەب ( ereb )
Uzbek: arab (uz)
Vietnamese: A-rập
Yiddish: אַראַביש (yi) ( arabish )
Proper noun
Arabic
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.
The Aramaic -derived alphabet used to write the Arabic, Persian , Pashto , Urdu , and Uyghur languages, among others.
Derived terms
( language ) : Classical Arabic , Modern Standard Arabic
Translations
language
Albanian: gjuha arabe f , arabisht (sq)
Amharic: ዓረብኛ ( ʿaräbña )
Arabic: الْعَرَبِيَّة (ar) f ( al-ʕarabiyya ) , اللُّغَة الْعَرَبِيَّة f ( al-luḡa l-ʿarabiyya ) , عَرَبِيّ (ar) m ( ʕarabiyy ) ( colloquial )
Egyptian Arabic: عربى m ( ʿarabi )
Aramaic:
Syriac: ܥܪܒܝܐ , ܥܪܒܝܬ
Armenian: արաբերեն (hy) ( araberen )
Assamese: আৰবী ভাষা ( arobi bhaxa )
Asturian: árabe (ast) m , arábicu (ast) m , arábigu (ast) m
Azerbaijani: ərəb , ərəb dili
Bashkir: ғәрәп теле ( ğərəp tele ) , ғәрәпсә ( ğərəpsə )
Basque: arabiera (eu)
Belarusian: ара́бская мо́ва f ( arábskaja móva ) , ара́бская f ( arábskaja )
Bengali: আরবি ভাষা ( arobi bhaśa )
Bulgarian: ара́бски ези́к m ( arábski ezík ) , ара́бски (bg) m ( arábski ) ( ези́к )
Burmese: အာရပ် ဘာသာ ( arapbhasa ) , အာရပ် ဘာသာစကား ( arapbhasaca.ka: )
Catalan: àrab (ca) m
Cherokee: ᎠᎸᎠᎳᏈᏯ (chr) ( alvalaquiya )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 阿拉伯文 ( aa3 laai1 baak3 man4*2 ) , 阿拉伯話 / 阿拉伯话 , 阿拉伯话 ( aa3 laai1 baak3 waa6-2 )
Mandarin: 阿拉伯語 / 阿拉伯语 (zh) ( ālābóyǔ ) , 阿拉伯语 (zh) ( ālābóyǔ ) , 阿拉伯文 (zh) ( ālābówén )
Min Nan: 阿拉伯語 / 阿拉伯语 (zh-min-nan) , 阿拉伯语 (zh-min-nan) ( A-la-pek-gú )
Corsican: arabu (co) m , àrabu m
Czech: arabština (cs) f , arabský jazyk m
Danish: arabisk (da)
Dutch: Arabisch (nl) n
Estonian: araabia keel (et)
Faroese: arabiskt (fo)
Finnish: arabia (fi)
French: arabe (fr) m
Galician: árabe (gl) m , arábigo m , arábico m
Georgian: არაბული ენა ( arabuli ena )
German: Arabisch (de) n , arabische Sprache n
Greenlandic: arabiamiutut , araberisut
Greek: αραβικά (el) n pl ( araviká ) , αράβικα n pl ( arávika ) ( informally ) , αραβική (el) f ( aravikí ) ( formally )
Hausa: arabiyya
Hebrew: עֲרָבִית (he) f ( aravít ) , עֲרָבִי (he) m ( araví )
Hindi: अरबी (hi) f ( arbī )
Hungarian: arab (hu)
Icelandic: arabíska (is)
Ido: Arabiana (io) , Araba (io)
Indonesian: bahasa arab
Interlingua: arabe
Irish: Araibis f
Italian: arabo (it) m
Japanese: アラビア語 (ja) ( アラビアご, arabiago )
Kashmiri: عَربی زَبان ( ʿarby zabān )
Kazakh: араб тілі ( arab tılı )
Khmer: អារ៉ាប់ (km) ( ʼaarap ) , ភាសា អារ៉ាប់ ( phiəsaa ʼaarap )
Korean: 아랍어 (ko) ( arabeo )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: erebî (ku) , zimanê erebî m
Kyrgyz: араб тили ( arab tili ) , арабча (ky) ( arabca )
Lao: ພາສາ ອາຣັບ ( phā sāʼā rap )
Latin: arabice m
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Latvian: arābu valoda f , arābu
Limburgish: Arabisj n
Lithuanian: arabų (lt) , arabų kalba (lt)
Low German:
German Low German: Araabsch (nds) n ( Northern Low German )
Macedonian: арапски m ( arapski )
Malay: bahasa Arab
Maltese: l-Għarbi (mt) m
Manx: Arabish f
Marathi: अरबी f ( arbī )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: араб хэл ( arab xel )
Navajo: Ásáí bizaad
Ngazidja Comorian: shiaraɓu class 7
Norman: Arabe m
Northern Sami: arábagiella
Norwegian:
Bokmål: arabisk (no) m
Nynorsk: arabisk m
Occitan: arabi (oc) m , arab (oc) m
Old English: Arabisċ n
Pashto: عربي (ps) ( 'arabí ) , عربي ژبه f ( žᶕba 'arabí )
Persian: عَرَبی (fa) ( ʿarabi ) , زبان عربی ( zabân-e ʿarabi )
Polish: arabski (pl) m , arabszczyzna (pl) f
Portuguese: árabe (pt) m
Punjabi: ਅਰਬੀ (pa) ( arabī )
Romanian: arabă (ro)
Russian: ара́бский язы́к m ( arábskij jazýk ) , ара́бский (ru) m ( arábskij ) ( язы́к )
Rusyn: ара́бскый язык m ( arábskŷj jazŷk )
Scots: Arabic , Araibic
Scottish Gaelic: Arabais f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: а̀рапскӣ m
Roman: àrapskī (sh) m
Sindhi: عربي ٻولي
Sinhalese: අරාබි (si) ( arābi ) , අරාබි භාෂාව ( arābi bhāṣāwa )
Slovak: arabčina (sk) f
Slovene: arabščina (sl) f
Spanish: árabe (es) m
Swahili: kiarabu (sw)
Swedish: arabiska (sv)
Tajik: забон и арабӣ ( zaboni arabi ) , арабӣ (tg) ( arabi )
Tatar: гарәп теле ( ğaräp tele ) , гарәпча ( ğaräpça )
Telugu: అరబ్బీ ( arabbī )
Thai: อารบิก ( aa-rá-bìk ) , ภาษา อาหรับ ( paa-sǎa aa-ràp )
Tigrinya: ዓረብ ( ʿaräb )
Turkish: Arapça (tr)
Turkmen: arap dili
Ukrainian: ара́бська мо́ва f ( arábsʹka móva ) , ара́бська (uk) f ( arábsʹka ) ( мо́ва )
Urdu: عربی (ur) f ( arabī )
Uyghur: ئەرەبچە ( erebche ) , ئەرەب تىلى ( ereb tili )
Uzbek: arabcha (uz) , arab tili
Vietnamese: tiếng A-rập , tiếng Ả Rập
Western Panjabi: عربی (pnb) ( ʻrbī )
Yiddish: אַראַביש (yi) n ( arabish )
alphabet
Arabic: أَبْجَدِيَّة عَرَبِيَّة f ( ʾabjadiyya ʿarabiyya )
Armenian: արաբական գիր ( arabakan gir )
Azerbaijani: ərəb , ərəb əlifbası
Bashkir: ғәрәп әлифбаһы ( ğərəp əlifbahı ) , ғәрәп яҙыуы ( ğərəp yaźıwı )
Basque: arabiar
Belarusian: ара́бскі алфаві́т m ( arábski alfavít ) , ара́бскае пісьмо́ n ( arábskaje pisʹmó ) , ара́біца f ( arábica ) , вязь f ( vjazʹ )
Bulgarian: ара́бска а́збука f ( arábska ázbuka )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 阿拉伯 字母 ( ālābó zìmǔ )
Finnish: arabia (fi)
French: arabe (fr) m , alphabet arabe (fr) m
Galician: árabe (gl) m
Georgian: არაბული დამწერლობა ( arabuli damc̣erloba )
German: Arabisch (de) n , arabisches Alphabet n
Hindi: अरबी लिपि f ( arbī lipi ) , अरबी (hi) f ( arbī )
Ido: arab (io)
Indonesian: huruf arab , abjad arab
Interlingua: arabe
Irish: script Araibise f
Italian: arabo (it)
Japanese: アラビア 文字 ( arabia moji )
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Kazakh: араб жазуы ( arab jazuy )
Khmer: អារ៉ាប់ (km) ( ʼaarap )
Korean: 아랍 문자 ( arap munja )
Macedonian: арапска азбука f ( arapska azbuka ) , арабица f ( arabica )
Malay: abjad Arab
Maltese: Għarbija f
Marathi: अरबी ( arbī )
Persian: الفبای عربی ( alefbâ-ye ʿarabi )
Portuguese: árabe (pt) m
Russian: ара́бский алфави́т m ( arábskij alfavít ) , ара́бское письмо́ n ( arábskoje pisʹmó ) , ара́бский (ru) m ( arábskij ) , ара́бица (ru) f ( arábica ) , вязь (ru) f ( vjazʹ )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: а̀рапскӣ m , ара̀бица f , арѐбица f
Roman: àrapskī (sh) m , aràbica (sh) f , arèbica f
Spanish: árabe (es) m
Swahili: kiarabu (sw)
Tajik: ҳуруфи арабӣ ( huruf-i arabi )
Thai: อักษร อาหรับ ( àk-sŏn aa-ràp )
Turkish: Arap (tr) , Arap alfabesi
Ukrainian: ара́бський алфаві́т m ( arábsʹkyj alfavít ) , ара́бське письмо́ n ( arábsʹke pysʹmó ) , ара́биця f ( arábycja ) , в'язь (uk) f ( vʺjazʹ )
Uzbek: arab alifbosi
See also
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Noun
Arabic (plural Arabics )
A variety of the Arabic language.
2004 April 22, Peter T. Daniels, “Taiwanese and their language”, in soc.culture.china [1] (Usenet ):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.
( proscribed ) An Arab
2000 July 20, Topprolmc, “OT - I participated in an obscene act today!”, in rec.motorcycles.harley [2] (Usenet ):That's the majority of working N'Yawkers. Blacks and Hispanics outnumber the arabics .
Further reading
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
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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
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