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Vinony

Arabism

noun

  1. A word borrowed from Arabic
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From Arab + -ism.

  1. An idiom characteristic of the Arabic language.

    “The translator, Joseph-Charles Mardrus, knew Arabic and he used some Arabic texts as the basis of his rewriting of the collection of ancient Eastern tales which he titled, in a daring Arabism in French, Les Mille Nuits et Une Nuit […]”

    “Arabisms, properly speaking, occur only as it respects form, in a few words; and this, it is probable, is only the result of negligent transcription. The Arabic language never exercised any predominating influence over the Hebrew.”