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Arabism en · NOUN

Etymology

From Arab + -ism.

Meanings

1. (rhetoric) An idiom characteristic of the Arabic language.
   • Arabisms, properly speaking, occur only as it respects form, in a few words; and this, it is probable, is only the result of negligent transcription. The Arabic language never exercised any predominating influence over the Hebrew. 1821, Moses Stuart, Hebrew Grammar with a Copious Syntax and a Praxis:
   • The translator, Joseph-Charles Mardrus, knew Arabic and he used some Arabic texts as the basis of his rewriting of the collection of ancient Eastern tales which he titled, in a daring Arabism in French, Les Mille Nuits et Une Nuit […] 2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin, published 2012, page 111:

Forms

Deriveds

pan-Arabism

Hypernyms

Semitism

Translations (13)

ca arabisme (an idiom characteristic of the Arabic language) · de Arabismus (an idiom characteristic of the Arabic language) · ar عُرُوبَة (an idiom characteristic of the Arabic language) · cmn 阿拉伯主義 /阿拉伯主义 (an idiom characteristic of the Arabic language) · sk arabizmus (an idiom characteristic of the Arabic language) · ro arabism (an idiom characteristic of the Arabic language) · ka არაბიზმი (an idiom characteristic of the Arabic language) · pl arabizm (an idiom characteristic of the Arabic language) · es arabismo (an idiom characteristic of the Arabic language) · pt arabismo (an idiom characteristic of the Arabic language) · fr arabisme (an idiom characteristic of the Arabic language) · ru араби́зм (an idiom characteristic of the Arabic language) · cs arabismus (an idiom characteristic of the Arabic language)