Arabian Peninsula

English

Alternative forms

• Arabian peninsula

Proper noun

the Arabian Peninsula

1. A peninsula in the Middle East, bordered by Jordan, the Syrian desert and Iraq to the north, the Persian Gulf to the northeast, the Gulf of Oman to the east, the Arabian Sea (part of the Indian Ocean) to the south (southeast), the Gulf of Aden to the south, the Red Sea to the west (southwest) extending north into the Gulf of Aqaba, and north along the Red Sea Rift to the Mediterranean Sea on the west (northwest). It consists mainly of Saudi Arabia, and may be geologically defined as the Arabian plate, also as the Arabian subcontinent.

Translations

peninsula in the Middle East

• Arabic: شِبْه اَلْجَزِيرَة اَلْعَرَبِيَّة (ar) f (šibh al-jazīra l-ʿarabiyya)
• Armenian: Արաբական թերակղզի (Arabakan tʻerakġzi)
• Azerbaijani: Ərəbistan yarımadası (az)
• Bashkir: Ғәрәп ярымутрауы (Ğərəp yarımutrawı)
• Belarusian: Араві́йскі паўво́страў m (Aravíjski paŭvóstraŭ)
• Bulgarian: Ара́бски полуо́стров m (Arábski poluóstrov)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: Arabský poloostrov (cs) m
• Danish: Den Arabiske Halvø
• Dutch: Arabisch Schiereiland
• Finnish: Arabian niemimaa (fi)
• French: Péninsule Arabique f
• Georgian: არაბეთის ნახევარკუნძული (arabetis naxevarḳunʒuli)
• German: Arabische Halbinsel (de) f
• Greek: Αραβική Χερσόνησος f (Aravikí Chersónisos)
• Hebrew: חֲצִי הָאִי עֲרָב m (khatsí ha'í 'aráv)
• Hindi: अरबी प्रायद्वीप (arabī prāyadvīp)
• Hungarian: Arab-félsziget (hu)
• Irish: Leithinis na hAraibe f
• Japanese: アラビア半島 (ja) (アラビアはんとう, Arabia hantō)
• Kazakh: Арабия түбегі (Arabiä tübegı)
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• Korean: 아라비아 반도 (Arabia bando)
• Kyrgyz: Араб жарым аралы (Arab jarım aralı)
• Macedonian: Ара́биски Полуо́стров m (Arábiski Poluóstrov)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Den arabiske halvøy (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: Den arabiske halvøya

• Persian: شبه‌جزیره عربستان (šebe-jazire-ye 'arabestân)
• Polish: Półwysep Arabski (pl) m
• Portuguese: Península Arábica f
• Romanian: Peninsula Arabică f
• Russian: Арави́йский полуо́стров (ru) m (Aravíjskij poluóstrov)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Арабијско полуострво n, Арапски полуоток m

  Roman: Arabijsko poluostrvo n, Arapski poluotok m

• Slovak: Arabský polostrov m
• Tagalog: angway ng Arabya
• Tatar: Гарәбстан ярымутравы (Ğaräbstan yarımutrawı)
• Thai: คาบสมุทรอาหรับ (kâap-sà-mùt aa-ràp)
• Turkish: Arap Yarımadası (tr)
• Ukrainian: Араві́йський піво́стрів m (Aravíjsʹkyj pivóstriv)
• Vietnamese: bán đảo Ả Rập