Arabia

See also: arabia, Arábia, Arabía, and Aràbia

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɹeɪbiə/
• Rhymes: -eɪbiə

Proper noun

Arabia

1. A peninsula 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) The region 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

Related terms

• Arab
• Arabic

Translations

a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf;

• Afrikaans: Arabië
• Albanian: Arabia (sq)
• Amharic: አረቢያ (ʾäräbiya)
• Arabic: شِبْهُ اَلْجَزِيرَةِ اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ (ar) f (šibhu l-jazīrati l-ʕarabiyyatu)

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

• Armenian: Արաբիա (Arabia)
• Avar: Гӏарабистан (ʻarabistan)
• Azerbaijani: Ərəbistan
• Bashkir: Ғәрәбстан (Ğərəbstan)
• Basque: Arabia
• Belarusian: Ара́вія f (Arávija)
• 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), 阿拉伯半岛 (zh) (Ālābó bàndǎo)

• Czech: Arábie (cs) f
• Danish: Arabien (da), Arabiske Halvø
• Dutch: Arabië (nl)
• Esperanto: Arabujo, Arabio
• Estonian: Araabia (et)
• Finnish: Arabia (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
• Icelandic: Arabía f
• Ido: Arabia (io)
• Indonesian: Arab (id), Jazirah Arab
• Interlingue:
• Irish: an Araib f
• Italian: Arabia f
• Japanese: アラビア (Arabia), 亜剌比亜 (Arabia)
• Kazakh: Арабия (Arabiä)
• Korean: 아라비아 (Arabia)
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• Kumyk: Арабыстан (Arabıstan)
• Kyrgyz: Арапыя (Arapıya)
• Latin: Arabia (la) f
• Latvian: Arābija f
• Lithuanian: Arabija f
• Macedonian: Арабија f (Arabija)
• Malay: Arab, Tanah Arab
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Arabia f

  Nynorsk: Arabia f

• Old English: Arabia f
• Old Persian: 𐎠𐎼𐎲𐎠𐎹 (arabāya)
• Pashto: عربستان (ps) m ('arabestãn)
• Persian: عربستان (fa) ('arabestân)
• Polish: Arabia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Arábia (pt) f
• 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
• Swedish: Arabien (sv)
• Tagalog: Arabya
• Tajik: Арабистон (Arabiston)
• Tatar: Гарәбстан (Ğaräbstan)
• Thai: คาบสมุทรอาหรับ (kâap-sà-mùt-aa-ràp)
• Turkish: Arabistan
• Turkmen: Arabistan
• Ukrainian: Ара́вія f (Arávija)
• Urdu: عربستان m ('arbistān)
• Uyghur: ئەرەبىستان (erebistan)
• Uzbek: Arabiston
• Vietnamese: Bán đảo Ả Rập
• Volapük: Larabän (vo)
• Welsh: Arabia
• Yiddish: אַראַביע (arabye)

Further reading

• Arabia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Abaíra

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Italian

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Arabia f

1. Arabia

Related terms

• Arabia Saudita
• arabesco
• arabico
• arabismo

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀραβία (Arabía).

Proper noun

Arabia f sg (genitive Arabiae); first declension

1. Arabia

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Arabia
Genitive	Arabiae
Dative	Arabiae
Accusative	Arabiam
Ablative	Arabiā
Vocative	Arabia

Derived terms

• Arabia Fēlīx

References

• “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.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Arabia

1. Arabia

Related terms

• araber
• arabisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Arabia

1. Arabia

Related terms

• arabar
• arabisk

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Old English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Arabia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈrɑ.bi.ɑ/

Proper noun

Arabia f

1. Arabia

Declension

Declension of Arabia (strong ō-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	Arabia	—
accusative	Arabie	—
genitive	Arabie	—
dative	Arabie	—

Derived terms

• Arabisċ

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈra.bja/

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Proper noun

Arabia f

1. Arabia

Declension

Declension of Arabia

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

Related terms

• Arab, Arabka
• arabski

Further reading

• Template:R:PWN

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾabja/ [aˈɾa.β̞ja]

Proper noun

Arabia f

1. Arabia

Derived terms

• Arabia Saudí, Arabia Saudita

Related terms

• árabe