Arabia

See also: arabia, Arábia, Arabía, and Aràbia

Languages (12)

English

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Corsican • Finnish • Italian • Latin • Norwegian Bokmål • Norwegian Nynorsk • Old English • Polish • Spanish • Tagalog • Welsh

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English

Etymology

From Latin Arabia, from Ancient Greek Ἀραβία (Arabía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɹeɪ.bi.ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪbiə

Proper noun

Arabia

2. A peninsula of Western Asia between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates.
4. (broader sense) The region of Western Asia within or adjacent to the Arabian Plate; Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the Egyptian Sinai, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates.

Derived terms

• Arabian
• Arabia Felix
• Arabia Terra
• Federation of South Arabia

Related terms

• Arab
• Arabic

Translations

a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf

• Afrikaans: Arabië
• Aghwan: 𐔰𐕙𐔰𐔱𐔼𐔺𐔰 (arabiya)
• Albanian: Arabi f (indefinite), Arabia (sq) f (definite)
• Amharic: አረቢያ (ʾäräbiya)
• Arabic: شِبْهُ اَلْجَزِيرَةِ اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ (ar) f (šibhu l-jazīrati l-ʕarabiyyatu)

  Egyptian Arabic: شبه الجزيرة العربية f (šebh eg-gazīra el-ʕarabiyya)

• Armenian: Արաբիա (Arabia)
• Aromanian: Arabii f (indefinite), Arabia f (definite)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܥܲܪܒ݂ܝܼܵܐ f (ˁarḇīyā)
• Avar: Гӏарабистан (ʻarabistan)
• Azerbaijani: Ərəbistan
• Bashkir: Ғәрәбстан (Ğərəbstan)
• Basque: Arabia
• Belarusian: Ара́вія f (Arávija)
• Bengali: আরব (bn) (arob)
• Bulgarian: Ара́бия f (Arábija)
• Catalan: Aràbia f
• Chechen: ӏаьрбийн ахгӏайре (ˀärbiı̇n axğajre)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿拉伯 (zh) (Ālābó), 阿拉伯半島 / 阿拉伯半岛 (zh) (Ālābó bàndǎo)

• Corsican: Arabia f
• Czech: Arábie (cs) f
• Danish: Arabien (da) ?, Arabiske Halvø c
• Dutch: Arabië (nl) n
• Esperanto: Arabujo, Arabio
• Estonian: Araabia (et)
• Finnish: Arabia (fi), Arabian niemimaa (fi)
• French: Arabie (fr) f
• Galician: Arabia f
• Georgian: არაბეთი (arabeti)
• German: Arabien (de) n
• Greek: Αραβία (el) f (Aravía)

  Ancient: Ἀραβία f (Arabía)

• Hebrew: עֲרָב (he) (arav)
• Hindi: अरेबिया m (arebiyā), अरबी प्रायद्वीप m (arbī prāyadvīp), अरबिस्तान (hi) m (arbistān), अरब (hi) m (arab)
• Hungarian: Arábia (hu)
• Icelandic: Arabía f
• Ido: Arabia (io)
• Indonesian: Arab (id), Jazirah Arab
• Irish: An Araib f
• Italian: Arabia f
• Japanese: アラビア (ja) (Arabia), 亜剌比亜 (Arabia)
• Kazakh: Арабия (Arabiä)
• Korean: 아라비아 (ko) (Arabia)
• Kumyk: Арабыстан (Arabıstan)
• Kyrgyz: Арапыя (Arapıya)
• Latin: Arabia (la) f
• Latvian: Arābija f
• Lithuanian: Arabija f
• Macedonian: Арабија f (Arabija)
• Malay: Arab, Tanah Arab
• Manx: Yn Arabaght f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Arabia f

  Nynorsk: Arabia f

• Old English: Arabia f
• Old Persian: 𐎠𐎼𐎲𐎠𐎹 (a-r-b-a-y /⁠arabāya⁠/)
• Pashto: عربستان (ps) m ('arabestãn)
• Persian: عربستان (fa) ('arabestân)
• Plautdietsch: Arabien n
• Polish: Półwysep Arabski (pl) m
• Portuguese: Arábia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਅਰਬ (pa) m (arab)
• Romanian: Arabia f
• Russian: Ара́вия (ru) f (Arávija), Арави́йский полуо́стров (ru) m (Aravíjskij poluóstrov)
• Scottish Gaelic: Aràibia f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: А̀ра̄бија f

  Roman: Àrābija (sh) f

• Slovak: Arábia f
• Slovene: Arabija f
• Somali: Carabiya
• Spanish: Arabia (es) f
• Swahili: Uarabuni class 14
• Swedish: Arabien (sv) n
• Tagalog: Arabya
• Tajik: Арабистон (Arabiston)
• Tatar: Гарәбстан (Ğaräbstan)
• Thai: คาบสมุทรอาหรับ (kâap-sà-mùt-aa-ràp)
• Turkish: Arabistan (tr)
• Turkmen: Arabistan
• Ukrainian: Ара́вія f (Arávija), Ара́бія f (Arábija)
• Urdu: عربستان m ('arbistān)
• Uyghur: ئەرەبىستان (erebistan)
• Uzbek: Arabiston
• Vietnamese: Bán đảo Ả Rập
• Volapük: Larabän (vo)
• Welsh: Arabia f
• Yiddish: אַראַביע ? (arabye)

region

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: Arabia (pl) f

Further reading

• Arabia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Abaíra

Corsican

Etymology

From Latin Arabia, from Ancient Greek Ἀραβία (Arabía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈrabia/

Proper noun

Arabia f

1. Arabia (A peninsula of Western Asia between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates)
2. (broader sense) Arabia (The region of Western Asia within or adjacent to the Arabian Plate; Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the Egyptian Sinai, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates)

Derived terms

• arabu

Finnish

Sample of Arabia's (sense #3) porcelain production.

Etymology

From Latin Arabia, from Ancient Greek Ἀραβία (Arabía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑrɑbiɑ/, [ˈɑ̝rɑ̝ˌbiɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): A‧ra‧bi‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): A‧ra‧bia

Proper noun

Arabia

1. Arabia (A peninsula of Western Asia between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates)
2. (broader sense) Arabia (The region of Western Asia within or adjacent to the Arabian Plate; Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the Egyptian Sinai, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates)
3. A former porcelain factory in Helsinki, once largest in Europe, now one of the brands of the Fiskars Group.
4. (countable, often uncapitalized) A piece of porcelain produced by, or under the brand of Arabia.

Declension

Inflection of Arabia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Arabia	Arabiat
genitive		Arabian	Arabioiden Arabioitten
partitive		Arabiaa	Arabioita
illative		Arabiaan	Arabioihin
		singular	plural
nominative		Arabia	Arabiat
accusative	nom.	Arabia	Arabiat
	gen.	Arabian
genitive		Arabian	Arabioiden Arabioitten Arabiain rare
partitive		Arabiaa	Arabioita
inessive		Arabiassa	Arabioissa
elative		Arabiasta	Arabioista
illative		Arabiaan	Arabioihin
adessive		Arabialla	Arabioilla
ablative		Arabialta	Arabioilta
allative		Arabialle	Arabioille
essive		Arabiana	Arabioina
translative		Arabiaksi	Arabioiksi
abessive		Arabiatta	Arabioitta
instructive		—	Arabioin
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Arabia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Arabiani Arabiani accusative nom. Arabiani Arabiani gen. Arabiani genitive Arabiani Arabioideni Arabioitteni Arabiaini rare partitive Arabiaani Arabioitani inessive Arabiassani Arabioissani elative Arabiastani Arabioistani illative Arabiaani Arabioihini adessive Arabiallani Arabioillani ablative Arabialtani Arabioiltani allative Arabialleni Arabioilleni essive Arabianani Arabioinani translative Arabiakseni Arabioikseni abessive Arabiattani Arabioittani instructive — — comitative — Arabioineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Arabiasi Arabiasi accusative nom. Arabiasi Arabiasi gen. Arabiasi genitive Arabiasi Arabioidesi Arabioittesi Arabiaisi rare partitive Arabiaasi Arabioitasi inessive Arabiassasi Arabioissasi elative Arabiastasi Arabioistasi illative Arabiaasi Arabioihisi adessive Arabiallasi Arabioillasi ablative Arabialtasi Arabioiltasi allative Arabiallesi Arabioillesi essive Arabianasi Arabioinasi translative Arabiaksesi Arabioiksesi abessive Arabiattasi Arabioittasi instructive — — comitative — Arabioinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Arabiamme Arabiamme accusative nom. Arabiamme Arabiamme gen. Arabiamme genitive Arabiamme Arabioidemme Arabioittemme Arabiaimme rare partitive Arabiaamme Arabioitamme inessive Arabiassamme Arabioissamme elative Arabiastamme Arabioistamme illative Arabiaamme Arabioihimme adessive Arabiallamme Arabioillamme ablative Arabialtamme Arabioiltamme allative Arabiallemme Arabioillemme essive Arabianamme Arabioinamme translative Arabiaksemme Arabioiksemme abessive Arabiattamme Arabioittamme instructive — — comitative — Arabioinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Arabianne Arabianne accusative nom. Arabianne Arabianne gen. Arabianne genitive Arabianne Arabioidenne Arabioittenne Arabiainne rare partitive Arabiaanne Arabioitanne inessive Arabiassanne Arabioissanne elative Arabiastanne Arabioistanne illative Arabiaanne Arabioihinne adessive Arabiallanne Arabioillanne ablative Arabialtanne Arabioiltanne allative Arabiallenne Arabioillenne essive Arabiananne Arabioinanne translative Arabiaksenne Arabioiksenne abessive Arabiattanne Arabioittanne instructive — — comitative — Arabioinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative Arabiansa Arabiansa accusative nom. Arabiansa Arabiansa gen. Arabiansa genitive Arabiansa Arabioidensa Arabioittensa Arabiainsa rare partitive Arabiaansa Arabioitaan Arabioitansa inessive Arabiassaan Arabiassansa Arabioissaan Arabioissansa elative Arabiastaan Arabiastansa Arabioistaan Arabioistansa illative Arabiaansa Arabioihinsa adessive Arabiallaan Arabiallansa Arabioillaan Arabioillansa ablative Arabialtaan Arabialtansa Arabioiltaan Arabioiltansa allative Arabialleen Arabiallensa Arabioilleen Arabioillensa essive Arabianaan Arabianansa Arabioinaan Arabioinansa translative Arabiakseen Arabiaksensa Arabioikseen Arabioiksensa abessive Arabiattaan Arabiattansa Arabioittaan Arabioittansa instructive — — comitative — Arabioineen Arabioinensa

Synonyms

• (peninsula): Arabian niemimaa

Derived terms

• arabia
• arabialainen
• Arabian niemimaa
• arabianhevonen
• arabianjasmiini
• arabiankahvi
• Arabianmeri
• Arabianranta
• arabiansusi
• Saudi-Arabia

Anagrams

• baaria

Italian

Etymology

From Latin Arabia, from Ancient Greek Ἀραβία (Arabía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈra.bja/
• Rhymes: -abja
• Hyphenation: A‧rà‧bia

Proper noun

Arabia f

1. Arabia (A peninsula of Western Asia between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates)
2. (broader sense) Arabia (The region of Western Asia within or adjacent to the Arabian Plate; Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the Egyptian Sinai, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates)

Related terms

• Arabia Saudita
• arabesco
• arabico
• arabismo

Latin

Alternative forms

• Arrabia (reflecting the heavy first syllable)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀραβία (Arabía).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aːˈra.bi.a/, [äːˈräbiä] or IPA^(key): /aˈra.bi.a/, [äˈräbiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈra.bi.a/, [äˈräːbiä]

Note: the short first syllable (probably the vowel) can be found metrically lengthened in order to allow the word to fit a dactylic meter, similarly to Ī̆talia.

Proper noun

Ā̆rabia f sg (genitive Ā̆rabiae); first declension

1. Arabia (A peninsula of Western Asia between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Ā̆rabia
genitive	Ā̆rabiae
dative	Ā̆rabiae
accusative	Ā̆rabiam
ablative	Ā̆rabiā
vocative	Ā̆rabia

Derived terms

• Ā̆rabia Dēserta
• Ā̆rabia Fēlīx
• Ā̆rabia Petraea

Related terms

• arabs
• arabus
• arabicus

Further reading

• “Arabia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Arabia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Arabia

1. Arabia (A peninsula of Western Asia between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates)
2. (broader sense) Arabia (The region of Western Asia within or adjacent to the Arabian Plate; Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the Egyptian Sinai, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates)

Related terms

• araber
• arabisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Arabia

1. Arabia (A peninsula of Western Asia between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates)
2. (broader sense) Arabia (The region of Western Asia within or adjacent to the Arabian Plate; Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the Egyptian Sinai, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates)

Related terms

• arabar
• arabisk

Old English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Arabia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑˌrɑ.bi.ɑ/

Proper noun

Arabia f

1. Arabia (a peninsula and region of Western Asia)

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	Arabia	—
accusative	Arabie	—
genitive	Arabie	—
dative	Arabie	—

Derived terms

• Arabisċ

Polish

Etymology

Internationalism; compare English Arabia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈra.bja/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -abja
• Syllabification: A‧ra‧bia

Proper noun

Arabia f

1. Arabia (A peninsula of Western Asia between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates)
2. (broader sense) Arabia (The region of Western Asia within or adjacent to the Arabian Plate; Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the Egyptian Sinai, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates)

Declension

Declension of Arabia

	singular
nominative	Arabia
genitive	Arabii
dative	Arabii
accusative	Arabię
instrumental	Arabią
locative	Arabii
vocative	Arabio

Related terms

adjective

• arabski

nouns

• Arab
• Arabka

Further reading

• Arabia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Arabia, from Ancient Greek Ἀραβία (Arabía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾabja/ [aˈɾa.β̞ja]
• Rhymes: -abja
• Syllabification: A‧ra‧bia

Proper noun

Arabia f

1. Arabia (A peninsula of Western Asia between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates)
2. (broader sense) Arabia (The region of Western Asia within or adjacent to the Arabian Plate; Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the Egyptian Sinai, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates)

Derived terms

• Arabia Saudí
• Arabia Saudita

Related terms

• árabe

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• Arabya

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Arabia, from Latin Arabia, from Ancient Greek Ἀραβία (Arabía).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈɾabja/ [ʔɐˈɾab.jɐ]
• Rhymes: -abja
• Syllabification: A‧rab‧ia

Proper noun

Arabia (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇᜊ᜔ᜌ)

1. Arabia (A peninsula of Western Asia between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates)
2. (broader sense) Arabia (The region of Western Asia within or adjacent to the Arabian Plate; Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the Egyptian Sinai, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates)

Related terms

• Arabe
• arabesko
• arabika
• Arabo
• Saudi Arabia

Further reading

• “Arabia”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English Arabia, from Latin Arabia, from Ancient Greek Ἀραβία (Arabía).

Proper noun

Arabia f

1. Arabia (A peninsula of Western Asia between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates)
2. (broader sense) Arabia (The region of Western Asia within or adjacent to the Arabian Plate; Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the Egyptian Sinai, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates)

Derived terms

• Sawdi Arabia (“Saudi Arabia”)

Related terms

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of Arabia

radical	soft	nasal	h-prothesis
Arabia	unchanged	unchanged	Harabia

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “Arabia”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies