Arab
adjective
No English definition recorded for this entry.
L254181 on Wikidata ↗noun
- person from or descended from somebody from Arabia
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈæɹəb/ / /ˈaɹəb/ / /ˈɛɹəb/
adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab, “Arabs”) or back-formation from Arabic.
- Of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations.
“The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.”
name
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab, “Arabs”) or back-formation from Arabic.
- A city in Marshall County, Alabama, United States.
- The Arabic language.
“Tarzan, who, by this time, with the assistance of Abdul, had picked up quite a smattering of Arab, questioned one of the younger men who had accompanied the sheik while the latter paid his respects to Captain Gerard.”
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Hindi अरब (arab)bor. English arab Borrowed from Hindi अरब (arab).
- billion (sense 1); 1,000,000,000; or with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,00,00,000.