Arabic definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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Ghatti B. Pressure 200 mm eta Z Temperature 15° C 0.3177 2,562 It will be obvious that the increase of viscosity over the previous solution in this case must be due to the smaller amount of the thin gum arabic which is present, i.e._, in the first case there is more gum arabic than is required to dissolve the whole of the insoluble metarabin.

—Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891

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Of or pertaining to Arabia or the Arabians.
The language of the Arabians.

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the Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects
relating to or characteristic of Arabs

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She buys gum arabic, the amber color of weak beer, to keep her colors from bleeding together on the paper.
The supply of gum arabic, also known as acacia gum as it comes from acacia trees in the gum belt of Africa, is variable due to climatic factors and ongoing political unrest in the countries where it is sourced, such as Sudan and Nigeria. — ConfectioneryNews RSS
Saudi Arabia is known for many things: oil, desert, camels, gold …. and among other things, also for its tumer otherwise known to non-arabic speakers as dates. — WordPress.com News
Justice my sis took arabic (linguistic degree) and she gave up because the writing looked like worms. me, other than a few years of french, i took greek and latin. good thing cuz nobody speak it!! although greek did make russian look comprehensible! — Blogger News Network
The men sit around haggling and welcoming you, mostly in arabic or french and you can either continue on or stop for a gander .... and if you are keen on purchasing you might end up sitting and chatting over mint tea. — TravelPod.com Recent Updates