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Adjective
/ˈarəbik/,
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The Semitic language of the Arabs, spoken by some 150 million people throughout the Middle East and North Africa,
  1. Of or relating to the literature or language of Arab people

Noun
  1. The Semitic language of the Arabs, spoken by some 150 million people throughout the Middle East and North Africa

  1. the Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects
  2. relating to or characteristic of Arabs; "Arabic languages"
  3. (arab) a member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa
  4. (arab) Arabian: a spirited graceful and intelligent riding horse native to Arabia
  5. Arabic (العربية ', or عربي ') is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages such as Hebrew and the Neo-Aramaic languages. Arabic has more speakers than any other language in the Semitic language family. ...
  6. As of Unicode 5.0, the following blocks encode Arabic characters: *Arabic (0600–06FF) *Arabic Supplement (0750–077F) *Arabic Presentation Forms-A (FB50–FDFF) *Arabic Presentation Forms-B (FE70–FEFF)
  7. (ʾaʿrāb) The proper name Arab or "Arabian" (and cognates in other languages) has been used to translate several different but similar sounding words in ancient and classical texts which do not necessarily have the same meaning or origin. ...
  8. Arab people (عربي, ʿarabi) or Arabs (العرب al-ʿarab) are an ethnic group whose members identify as such on one or more of linguistic, cultural, political, or genealogical grounds.Deng, 1995, . Those self-identifying as Arab, however, rarely do so with it as their sole identity. ...
  9. The araB gene promoter is a bacterial promoter, activated by e L-arabinose binding.
  10. (Arab (automobile)) The Arab was a high performance English automobile designed by Reid Railton and manufactured in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, between 1926 and 1928.
  11. Of, from, or pertaining to Arab countries or cultural behaviour (see also Arab as an adjective); A major Semitic language originating from the Arabian peninsula, and now spoken natively (in various spoken dialects, all sharing a single highly conservative standardized literary form) throughout ...
  12. (Arab) A person of Arab origin; A breed of horse; of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations
  13. (Arab) A breed originating in the mideast but now world-wide. Always solid color. Registry kept by the Arabian Horse Association.
  14. (Arab) A person whose origins may be traced to an Arab cultural, ethnic or linguistic heritage. Countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Jordan have predominantly Arab populations. ...
  15. (Arab) Ambush, a city in the mountains of Judah (Josh. 15:52), now Er-Rabiyeh.
  16. (Arab) Individual who comes from, or whose ancestors come from, the Arabian peninsula.
  17. (Arab) Many equate Islam and Muslims to mean Arabs. Muslims may be any nationality. An Arab could be a Muslim, a Christian, a Jew or an atheist. Arabs constitute only about twenty percent of the Muslim population.
  18. (Arab) Muslims claim that Ishmael is the ancestor of the Arabs, so that all Arabs are also descendants of Abraham. However, not all or even most Muslims today are Arab.
  19. (Arab) Refers to a nation or people from Arabic-speaking country. Not synonymous with Muslim. When referring to events in a specific country, name the country, rather than generalizing with "Arab." Do not imply in headlines or text that “Arab” equals Muslim, holy war, or terrorist.
  20. (Arab) The name given to various unrelated sub-tribes in south and east Iran.
  21. (Arab) a member of an Arabic-speaking people
  22. (Arabs) People from the Arabic-speaking countries of the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan and Libya. Most Arabs in the Middle East are Muslims, but only 12 percent of the world's Muslims are Arabs. Most Arab Americans are Christians.
  23. (Arabs) After Ptolemy died in 180 AD, there was not very much going on in terms of astronomy, but these people revived the science of astronomy through observation. In 813, Al-Ma'mun founded the Baghdad school, which made some new star catalogues. ...
  24. (Arabs) originally a desert-dwelling people of the Middle East, chiefly of interest because they named and catalogued most of the visible stars. Mentioned in footnotes: 1; Mentioned in commentaries: 1.
  25. causes the current value of a specified counter to be printed in Arabic numbers