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Arab¹
- /ˈæɹəb/ Australia, UK
- /ˈaɹəb/ British, Northern England, Southern
- /ˈæɹəb/ US
- /ˈɛɹəb/ US
- /ˈaɾəb/ Scotland, Wales
- /ˈɛɹəb/ New Zealand
- /ˈeɪɹæb/ dated, offensive
Rhymes with -æɹəb
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab, “Arabs”) or back-formation from Arabic.
adjective
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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, emp
Similar: Arabic
noun Arabs
- A member of the Semitic ethnic group native to the Arabian Peninsula.
- An Arabic-speaking person from anywhere in the Middle East and North Africa. This backlash also fails to take into account that Israel, for all its faults, is a multicultural society where almost half of graduating doctors today are Arabs or Druze.
- An Arabian horse. Having taken a very early breakfast, I mounted about eight o'clock my grey Arab, and without anything occurring worthy of note, killed the first three boars in the space of an hour, […]
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A street Arab.
a. 1892, Charles Spurgeon, a sermon
You Christian people often see the little gutter children — the poor little arabs in the street — and you feel much pity for them, as well you may.
Similar: Ayrab, woolly-head, sand nigger
proper noun
- 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.
arab²
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Hindi अरब (arab).
noun arab · arabs
- billion (sense 1); 1,000,000,000; or with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,00,00,000.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: arabian, arabic, persian, saracen, arabism, bedouin, palestinian, yemenite, omani, egypt, cairo, arabia, emir, english, semite, shatt
Translations
Every language
adj of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations
| Español | árabe |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 아랍의 arab-ui |
| 日本語 | アラブの arabu no |
| 中文 | 阿拉伯 Ālābó |
| हिन्दी | अरबी arbī, अरब arab |
| Português | árabe |
| Français | arabe |
| Deutsch | arabisch, Araber- |
| Italiano | arabo |
| Ελληνικά | αραβικός aravikós |
| Română | arab |
| Русский | ара́бский arábskij |
| Tiếng Việt | Á rập |
| العربية | عَرَبِيّ ʕarabiyy |
| עברית | עֲרָבִי araví, עֲרָבִית aravít |
noun person from Arabia
| Español | árabe |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 아랍인 arabin |
| 日本語 | アラビア人 arabiajin |
| 中文 | 阿拉伯人 Ālābórén |
| हिन्दी | अरब arab, अरबी arbī |
| Kiswahili | Mwarabu |
| Português | árabe |
| Français | Arabe |
| Deutsch | Araber, Araberin |
| Italiano | arabo, araba |
| Ελληνικά | Άραβας Áravas, Αράβισσα Arávissa |
| Română | arab, arabă |
| Русский | ара́б aráb, ара́бка arábka |
| Tiếng Việt | người Á rập |
| العربية | عَرَبِيّ ʕarabiyy, عَرَبِيَّة ʕarabiyya, عَرَب ʕarab |
| עברית | עֲרָבִי araví, עֲרָבִיָּה araviyá |
Talk about this word "arab." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/arab. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. arab. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/arab "arab." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/arab.Cite this
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title = {arab},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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