Arabic

Arabic

See also: arabic

English

Alternative forms

• Arabical (archaic)
• Arabick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin arabicus, from Arabia +‎ -icus, from Ancient Greek Ἀραβία (Arabía), ultimately from the Arabic عَرَب‎ (ʿarab).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæɹəbɪk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæɹəbɪk/, /ˈɛɹəbɪk/

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Adjective

Arabic (not comparable)

1. Related to the Arabic language.
   • 2008, Abdallah Nacereddine, To Be Oneself: The Tragicomedy of an Unfinished Life History, →ISBN, page 342:

     One day my UN students asked me, "Which is the Arabic country where the best Arabic is spoken?" I quickly replied, "Bosnia." They exclaimed, "But Bosnia is not an Arab country!"

2. Of, from, or pertaining to Arab countries or cultural behaviour (see also Arab as an adjective).
   • 2012, Deborah Youdell, “Intelligibility, agency and the raced–nationed–religioned subjects of education”, in Intersectionality and "Race" in Education, →ISBN, page 202:

     White chalk on the fascia board above the Arabic-food stall reads "Lebanon" and "Lebs rule".

Usage notes

• The adjective Arabic is commonly used in reference to language, and in traditional phrases such as Arabic numeral or gum arabic. Its use is controversial and often deprecated in reference to people or countries, where the adjective Arab is preferred.

Translations

of, from, or pertaining to Arab countries or cultural behaviour

Albanian: arab (sq) Arabic: عَرَبِيّ‎ (ar) (ʿarabiyy) Armenian: արաբական (hy) (arabakan) Assamese: আৰবী (arobi) Asturian: árabe (ast), arábicu (ast), arábigu (ast) Avar: гӏараб (ʻarab) Azerbaijani: ərəb Bashkir: ғәрәп (ğäräp) Belarusian: ара́бскі (arábski) Bengali: আরবি (bn) (arôbi) Bulgarian: ара́бски (bg) (arábski) Burmese: အာရပ် (arap) Catalan: àrab (ca), aràbic Chinese: Cantonese: 阿拉伯 (aa3 laai1 baak3) Dungan: араб (arab) Mandarin: 阿拉伯 (zh) (ālābó) Min Nan: 阿拉伯 (A-la-pek) Czech: arabský (cs) m Danish: arabisk (da) n Dhivehi: ޢަރަބި‎ (dv) (ʿarabi) Dutch: Arabisch (nl) Esperanto: araba (eo) Estonian: araabia (et) Finnish: arabialainen (fi) French: arabe (fr) Galician: árabe (gl), arábigo, arábico Georgian: არაბული (ka) (arabuli) German: arabisch (de) Greek: αραβικός (el) (aravikós) Ancient: Ἀραβικός (Arabikós) Hebrew: עֲרָבִי‎ (he) m (araví), עֲרָבִית‎ (he) f (aravít) Hindi: अरबी (hi) (arbī), अरब (hi) (arab) Hungarian: arab (hu) Icelandic: arabískur (is) Ido: Arabiana (io), Araba (io) Indonesian: arab (id), Arab (id) Interlingua: arabe, arabic Irish: Arabach Italian: arabo (it) Japanese: アラビアの (arabia no), アラブの (ja) (arabu no) Kazakh: араб (arab), арабы (araby) Khmer: អារ៉ាប់ (km) (ʼaarap), អារ៉ាប (ʼaaraap) Korean: 아랍의 (arabui), 아랍 (arap) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: erebî (ku) Kyrgyz: араб (ky) (arab) Ladino: Roman: árabo Lao: ອາຣັບ (ʼā rap), ອາຫລັບ (ʼā lap), ອາລັບ (ʼā lap) Latin: arabicus Latvian: arābu, arābisks Lithuanian: arabų (lt), arabiškas (lt) Macedonian: арапски (arapski) Malay: Arab Malayalam: അറബി (ml) (aṟabi) Maltese: Għarbi (mt) m, Għarbija f Manx: Arabagh Marathi: अरबी (arbī) Mongolian: Cyrillic: араб (arab) Norwegian: Bokmål: arabisk (no) Nynorsk: arabisk Old English: Arabisċ Pashto: عربي‎ (ps) ('arabí) Persian: عرب‎ (fa) ('arab), عربی‎ (fa) ('arabi) Polish: arabski (pl) Portuguese: árabe (pt), arábico (pt) Romanian: arab (ro), arabic (ro), arăbesc (ro) Russian: ара́бский (ru) (arábskij) Rusyn: ара́бскый (arábskŷj) Scots: Arabic, Araibic Scottish Gaelic: Arabach Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: а̀рапскӣ Roman: àrapskī (sh) Slovak: arabský (sk) Slovene: arabski (sl) Spanish: árabe (es), arábigo (es) Swahili: kiarabu (sw) Swedish: arabisk (sv) Tagalog: arabe (tl) Tajik: арабӣ (tg) (arabī) Tatar: гарәп (tt) (ğaräp) Thai: อาหรับ (th) (aa-ràp), อารบิก (aa-rá-bìk) Turkish: Arap (tr) Turkmen: arap Ukrainian: ара́бський (uk) (arábsʹkyj) Urdu: عربی‎ (ur) ('arabī) Uyghur: ئەرەب‎ (ereb) Uzbek: arab (uz) Vietnamese: A-rập Yiddish: אַראַביש‎ (yi) (arabish)

Proper noun

Arabic

1. 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 large sections of the Middle East and North Africa.
2. The Aramaic-derived alphabet used to write the Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu, and Uyghur languages, among others.

Derived terms

• Arabical
• Arabically
• Arabicization
• Arabicness
• Arabic numeral
• Arabic scale
• Arabic script
• Arabic studies
• Hispano-Arabic
• Mozarabic

 

Related terms

(language): Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic

Translations

language

Albanian: gjuha arabe f, arabisht (sq) Amharic: ዓረብኛ (ʿaräbña) Arabic: الْعَرَبِيَّة‎ (ar) f (al-ʿarabiyya), اللُّغَة الْعَرَبِيَّة‎ f (al-luḡa l-ʿarabiyya), عَرَبِيّ‎ (ar) m (ʿarabiyy) (colloquial) Algerian Arabic: please add this translation if you can Baharna Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chadian Arabic: please add this translation if you can Cypriot Arabic: please add this translation if you can Dhofari Arabic: please add this translation if you can Egyptian Arabic: عربى‎ m (ʿarabi) Moroccan Arabic: لعربية‎ f Najdi Arabic: please add this translation if you can North Levantine Arabic: please add this translation if you can North Mesopotamian Arabic: please add this translation if you can Aramaic: Syriac: ܥܪܒܝܐ‎, ܥܪܒܝܬ‎ Armenian: արաբերեն (hy) (araberen) Assamese: আৰবী ভাষা (arobi bhaxa) Asturian: árabe (ast) m, arábicu (ast) m, arábigu (ast) m Azerbaijani: ərəb, ərəb dili Bashkir: ғәрәп теле (ğäräp tele), ғәрәпсә (ğäräpsä) Basque: arabiera (eu) Belarusian: ара́бская мо́ва f (arábskaja móva), ара́бская f (arábskaja) Bengali: আরবি ভাষা (arôbi bhaṣa) Bulgarian: ара́бски ези́к m (arábski ezík), ара́бски (bg) m (arábski) (ези́к) Burmese: အာရပ်ဘာသာ (arapbhasa), အာရပ်ဘာသာစကား (arapbhasaca.ka:) Catalan: àrab (ca) m Cherokee: ᎠᎸᎠᎳᏈᏯ (chr) (alvalaquiya) Chinese: Cantonese: 阿拉伯文 (aa3 laai1 baak3 man4*2), 阿拉伯話, 阿拉伯话 (aa3 laai1 baak3 waa6-2) Mandarin: 阿拉伯語／阿拉伯语 (zh) (ālābóyǔ), 阿拉伯文 (zh) (ālābówén) Min Nan: 阿拉伯語 (zh-min-nan), 阿拉伯语 (zh-min-nan) (A-la-pek-gú) Corsican: arabu (co) m, àrabu m Czech: arabština (cs) f, arabský jazyk m Danish: arabisk (da) Dutch: Arabisch (nl) n Estonian: araabia keel (et) Faroese: arabiskt (fo) Finnish: arabia (fi) French: arabe (fr) m Galician: árabe (gl) m, arábigo m, arábico m Georgian: არაბული ენა (arabuli ena) German: Arabisch (de) n, arabische Sprache n Greenlandic: arabiamiutut, araberisut Greek: αραβικά (el) n pl (araviká), αράβικα n pl (arávika) (informally), αραβική (el) f (aravikí) (formally) Hausa: arabiyya Hebrew: עֲרָבִית‎ (he) f (aravít), עֲרָבִי‎ (he) m (araví) Hindi: अरबी (hi) f (arbī) Hungarian: arab (hu) Icelandic: arabíska (is) Ido: Arabiana (io), Araba (io) Indonesian: bahasa arab Interlingua: arabe Irish: Araibis f Italian: arabo (it) m Japanese: アラビア語 (ja) (アラビアご, arabiago) Kashmiri: عَربی زَبان‎ (ʿarby zabān) Kazakh: араб тілі (arab tılı) Khmer: អារ៉ាប់ (km) (ʼaarap), ភាសាអារ៉ាប់ (phiəsaa ʼaarap) Korean: 아랍어 (ko) (arabeo) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: erebî (ku), zimanê erebî m Kyrgyz: араб тили (arab tili), арабча (ky) (arabça) Lao: ພາສາອາຣັບ (phā sā ʼā rap) Latin: arabice m Latvian: arābu valoda f, arābu Limburgish: Arabisj n Lithuanian: arabų (lt), arabų kalba (lt) Low German: German Low German: Araabsch (nds) n (Northern Low German) Macedonian: арапски m (arapski) Malay: bahasa Arab Maltese: l-Għarbi (mt) m Manx: Arabish f Marathi: अरबी f (arbī) Mongolian: Cyrillic: араб хэл (arab xel) Navajo: Ásáí bizaad Ngazidja Comorian: shiaraɓu class 7 Norman: Arabe m Northern Sami: arábagiella Norwegian: Bokmål: arabisk (no) m Nynorsk: arabisk m Occitan: arabi (oc) m, arab (oc) m Old English: Arabisċ n Pashto: عربي‎ (ps) ('arabí), عربي ژبه‎ f (žᶕba 'arabí) Persian: عَرَبی‎ (fa) (ʿarabi), زبان عربی‎ (zabân-e ʿarabi) Polish: arabski (pl) m, arabszczyzna (pl) f Portuguese: árabe (pt) m Punjabi: ਅਰਬੀ (pa) (arabī) Romanian: arabă (ro) Russian: ара́бский язы́к m (arábskij jazýk), ара́бский (ru) m (arábskij) (язы́к) Rusyn: ара́бскый язык m (arábskŷj jazŷk) Scots: Arabic, Araibic Scottish Gaelic: Arabais f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: а̀рапскӣ m Roman: àrapskī (sh) m Sindhi: عربي ٻولي‎ Sinhalese: අරාබි (si) (arābi), අරාබි භාෂාව (arābi bhāṣāwa) Slovak: arabčina (sk) f Slovene: arabščina (sl) f Spanish: árabe (es) m Swahili: kiarabu (sw) Swedish: arabiska (sv) Tajik: забони арабӣ (zaboni arabī), арабӣ (tg) (arabī) Tatar: гарәп теле (ğaräp tele), гарәпча (ğaräpça) Telugu: అరబ్బీ (arabbī) Thai: อารบิก (aa-rá-bìk), ภาษาอาหรับ (paa-sǎa aa-ràp) Tigrinya: ዓረብ (ʿaräb) Turkish: Arapça (tr) Turkmen: arap dili Ukrainian: ара́бська мо́ва f (arábsʹka móva), ара́бська (uk) f (arábsʹka) (мо́ва) Urdu: عربی‎ (ur) f (arabī) Uyghur: ئەرەبچە‎ (erebche), ئەرەب تىلى‎ (ereb tili) Uzbek: arabcha (uz), arab tili Vietnamese: tiếng A-rập, tiếng Ả Rập Western Panjabi: عربی‎ (pnb) Yiddish: אַראַביש‎ (yi) n (arabish)

alphabet

Arabic: أَبْجَدِيَّة عَرَبِيَّة‎ f (ʾabjadiyya ʿarabiyya) Baharna Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: արաբական գիր (arabakan gir) Azerbaijani: ərəb, ərəb əlifbası Bashkir: ғәрәп әлифбаһы (ğäräp älifbahı), ғәрәп яҙыуы (ğäräp yaðıwı) Basque: arabiar Belarusian: ара́бскі алфаві́т m (arábski alfavít), ара́бскае пісьмо́ n (arábskaje pisʹmó), ара́біца f (arábica), вязь f (vjazʹ) Bulgarian: ара́бска а́збука f (arábska ázbuka) Chinese: Mandarin: 阿拉伯字母 (ālābó zìmǔ) Finnish: arabia (fi) French: arabe (fr) m, alphabet arabe (fr) m Galician: árabe (gl) m Georgian: არაბული დამწერლობა (arabuli damc̣erloba) German: Arabisch (de) n, arabisches Alphabet n Hindi: अरबी लिपि f (arbī lipi), अरबी (hi) f (arbī) Ido: arab (io) Indonesian: huruf arab, abjad arab Interlingua: arabe Irish: script Araibise f Italian: arabo (it) Japanese: アラビア文字 (arabia moji) Kazakh: араб жазуы (arab jazuy) Khmer: អារ៉ាប់ (km) (ʼaarap) Korean: 아랍 문자 (arap munja) Macedonian: арапска азбука f (arapska azbuka), арабица f (arabica) Malay: abjad Arab Maltese: Għarbija f Marathi: अरबी (arbī) Persian: الفبای عربی‎ (alefbâ-ye ʿarabi) Portuguese: árabe (pt) m Russian: ара́бский алфави́т m (arábskij alfavít), ара́бское письмо́ n (arábskoje pisʹmó), ара́бский (ru) m (arábskij), ара́бица (ru) f (arábica), вязь (ru) f (vjazʹ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: а̀рапскӣ m, ара̀бица f, арѐбица f Roman: àrapskī (sh) m, aràbica (sh) f, arèbica f Spanish: árabe (es) m Swahili: kiarabu (sw) Tajik: ҳуруфи арабӣ (hurufi arabī) Thai: อักษรอาหรับ (àk-sŏn aa-ràp) Turkish: Arap (tr), Arap alfabesi Ukrainian: ара́бський алфаві́т m (arábsʹkyj alfavít), ара́бське письмо́ n (arábsʹke pysʹmó), ара́биця f (arábycja), в'язь (uk) f (vʺjazʹ) Uzbek: arab alifbosi

See also

Wikibooks

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Arabic terms
• Appendix:Arabic Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Arabic
• Arabic edition of Wiktionary
• Arabic language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Appendix:Arabic script
• Arab
• Arabian

Noun

Arabic (plural Arabics)

1. A variety of the Arabic language.
   • 2004 April 22, Peter T. Daniels, “Taiwanese and their language”, in soc.culture.china, Usenet‎:

     Classic Arabic didn't "turn into" the various Arabic vernaculars. There is disagreement over whether the range of spoken Arabics all have a single ancestor (seems unlikely), but Classical Arabic is a somewhat artificial creation based on at least two dialects.

2. (proscribed) An Arab
   • 2000 July 20, Topprolmc, “OT - I participated in an obscene act today!”, in rec.motorcycles.harley, Usenet‎:

     That's the majority of working N'Yawkers. Blacks and Hispanics outnumber the arabics.

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code ar, ISO 639-3 code ara (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Arabic, ara ⁠, a macrolanguage including:

• Ethnologue entry for Algerian Arabic, arq ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Algerian Saharan Arabic, aao ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Babalia Creole Arabic, bbz ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Baharna Arabic, abv ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Chadian Arabic, shu ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Cypriot Arabic, acy ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Dhofari Arabic, adf ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic, avl ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Egyptian Arabic, arz ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Gulf Arabic, afb ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Hadrami Arabic, ayh ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Hijazi Arabic, acw ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Libyan Arabic, ayl ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Mesopotamian Arabic, acm ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Moroccan Arabic, ary ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Najdi Arabic, ars ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for North Levantine Arabic, apc ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for North Mesopotamian Arabic, ayp ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Omani Arabic, acx ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Saidi Arabic, aec ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Sanaani Arabic, ayn ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Shihhi Arabic, ssh ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for South Levantine Arabic, ajp ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Standard Arabic, arb ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Sudanese Arabic, apd ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Sudanese Creole Arabic, pga ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic, acq ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Tajiki Arabic, abh ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Tunisian Arabic, aeb ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Uzbeki Arabic, auz ⁠

• Arabic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• Barcia, carabi