Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to Arabia, the Arabs, their language, or their culture.
- n. A Semitic language consisting of numerous dialects that is the principal language of Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, and parts of northern Africa.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, from, or pertaining to Arab countries or cultural behaviour (see also Arab as an adjective).
- n. 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.
- n. The Aramaic-derived alphabet used to write the Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu, and Uyghur languages, among others.
Etymologies
- From Latin arabicus. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A traveller might take a translation advantageously, one without Arabic notes, or _Arabic_ words explained, which would soon excite their curiosity to know what it was.”
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
“Bilkis, Queen of Sheba_, compiled from various Arabic sources, in Socin's _Arabic Grammar_ (Eng. tr.,”
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV
“Fighting back against those who oppress, in Arabic, is qital, which is a completely different term (see below).”
“I am from Lebanon, an Arab country, and I can assure to you that your name in Arabic is correct!”
“Turkish word, written with the Pers. “ch,” a letter which in Arabic is supplanted by “sh,” everywhere except in Morocco.”
“Launched earlier this year, al-Mahaba, which means "love" in Arabic, is the first independent women's radio station in Iraq.”
“Even when they can read their own language well, the range of books in Arabic is so circumscribed that their ideas are fettered, and explanation becomes most difficult when anything new is being suggested to them.”
“The original idea in Arabic is the heat of haste (Mt 12: 43; 1Pe 5: 8).”
“FATFAT: Yes, the university campus also and what you call the Arabic university, also the situation is better now.”
“He and the Vice-Consul understand each other in what they call Arabic – but it would puzzle an Arab.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘Arabic’.
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INTERP - languages
This is not a scientific list based on unified criteria, the sole aim was to collect as many language names as possible.
The list contains the names of the following artificial langua...Abkhazian, Achinese, Acoli, Adangme, Adyghe, Afar, Afrikaans, Ainu, Akan, Albanian, Amharic, Angika and 8674 more...
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EN - pronunciation fun
All words of the poem
The Chaos
by Gerard Nolst Trenité
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse <...abyss, ache, actual, advice, aerie, age, ague, aisles, alas, alien, alive, allowed and 406 more...
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Capitonyms or capitonyms
Capitonyms are, properly, words which change meaning and sound when they change case. This particular list may also erringly include words which change meaning, but not sound. These are improper. S...
Turkey, turkey, China, china, August, august, Bill, bill, Catholic, catholic, Ionic, ionic and 94 more...
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-ic ending
Words ending in ic, tic or nic.
clastic, elastic, caustic, spastic, frantic, lactic, moronic, ironic, panic, doric, diplomatic, bureaucratic and 202 more...
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Available language editions of Scrabble
Note: Some language editions ignore diacritical marks (ie. Romanian) while others (ie. Icelandic) include them.
English, Afrikaans, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French and 22 more...
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