Borrowed from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab, “Arabs”) or back-formation from Arabic.
Meanings
(not-comparable) 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, employed by a military trained by westerners. 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2022, page 18:
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nations) · grc Ἀραβικός (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations) · ps عرب (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations) · lo ອາຫຼັບ (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations) · nb arabisk (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations) · pl arabski (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations) · sh а̀рапскӣ (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations) · yi אַראַביש (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations) · ba ғәрәп (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations) · fa عَرَب (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations) · vi Á rập (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations) · es árabe (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations) · he עֲרָבִית (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations) · cs arabský (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations) · dng араб (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations) · bn আরবি (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations) · da arabisk (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations) · lo ອາຣັບ (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations) · my အာရပ် (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations) · id bahasa Arab (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations) · eo araba (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations) · tt гарәп (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations) · sv arab- (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations) · km អារ៉ាប់ (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations) · tg арабӣ (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations) · ga Arabach (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations) · mr अरबी (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations) · fr arabe (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations) · sv arabisk (of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations)
Borrowed from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab, “Arabs”) or back-formation from Arabic.
Meanings
(qualifier:strictly) A member of the Semitic ethnic group native to the Arabian Peninsula.
(broadly) A person from the Middle East and North Africa, whose mother tongue is Arabic.
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. 2023 October 29, Thomas L. Friedman, “Please, Israel, Don’t Get Lost in Hamas’s Tunnels”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2023:
(uncommon) 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, […] 1887, Edward B. Baker, Sport in Bengal: and How, When, and where to Seek it, page 61:
(archaic) 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.
The other day I heard you complaining of the nuisance that small ragged street-boys are to you whenever you go out. […] You wished that some one would do something to clear away these little Arabs, as you are pleased to call them, so that a fine old English gentleman—as you are pleased to think yourself—might take his exercise in peace. 1866, Punch, page 225:
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Borrowed from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab, “Arabs”) or back-formation from Arabic.
Meanings
A city in Marshall County, Alabama, United States.
(dated, rare) 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. 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Numa ‘El Adrea’”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 120: