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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arab

Arab \Ar"ab\ (?; 277), n. [Prob. ultimately fr. Heb. arabah a desert, the name employed, in the Old Testament, to denote the valley of the Jordan and Dead Se

  1. Ar. Arab, He

  2. arabi, arbi, arbim: cf. F. Arabe, L. Arabs, Gr. ?.] One of a swarthy race occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, et

  3. Street Arab, a homeless vagabond in the streets of a city, particularly and outcast boy or girl.
    --Tylor.

    The ragged outcasts and street Arabs who are shivering in damp doorways.
    --Lon

  4. Sat. Rev. [1913 Webster] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Arab

late 14c. (Arabes, a plural form), from Old French Arabi, from Latin Arabs (accusative Arabem), from Greek Araps (genitive Arabos), from Arabic 'arab, indigenous name of the people, perhaps literally "inhabitant of the desert" and related to Hebrew arabha "desert." Meaning "homeless little wanderer, child of the street" is from 1848 (originally Arab of the city), in reference to nomadic ways. Arab League formed in Cairo, March 22, 1945.

Wiktionary
arab

a. Of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations. n. 1 A Semitic person, whose antecedents were from Arabia 2 An inhabitant of Arabia 3 A member of an Arabic-speaking community 4 A particular breed of horse.

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Arab, AL -- U.S. city in Alabama
Population (2000): 7174
Housing Units (2000): 3223
Land area (2000): 12.768564 sq. miles (33.070427 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.081631 sq. miles (0.211423 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 12.850195 sq. miles (33.281850 sq. km)
FIPS code: 02116
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 34.327863 N, 86.498613 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 35016
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
Arab (disambiguation)

An Arab is a member of a major ethnolinguistic group primarily living in western Asia and northern Africa.

Arab may also refer to:

  • Arab (etymology)
  • Arabic alphabet
    • Arabic (Unicode block)
  • Arabic language
    • Arabic languages
  • Arabic numerals
  • Arabic script
  • Classical Arabic
  • Modern Standard Arabic
  • Varieties of Arabic

Arab, Arabic, Arabian or Ərəb may also refer to:

Arab (automobile)

The Arab was a high-performance English automobile designed by Reid Railton and manufactured in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, between 1926 and 1928. The factory had previously been used by the Phoenix car company.

Arab (etymology)

The proper name Arab or Arabian (and cognates in other languages) has been used to translate several different but similar sounding words in ancient and classical texts which do not necessarily have the same meaning or origin. The etymology of the term is of course closely linked to that of the place name Arabia. Gustave E. von Grunebaum, in his book Classical Islam said that an approximate translation is passerby or nomad.

AraB

The araB gene promoter is a bacterial promoter, activated by e L-arabinose binding.

Arab (horse)

Arab (1824–1841) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. In a brief racing career, the filly ran three times with her only success coming in the classic 1000 Guineas at Newmarket in 1827.

Usage examples of "arab".

Not until the Arab conquest and the coming of Islam did Mesopotamia begin to regain its glory, particularly when Baghdad was the seat of the Abbasid caliphate between 750 and 1258.

From a chance remark of the Abyssinian, Werper discovered the purpose of the expedition, and when he realized that these men were the enemies of Achmet Zek, he took heart, and immediately blamed his predicament upon the Arab.

As he crouched in hiding among the unkempt shrubbery which so short a while since had been the delight and pride of the wife he no longer recalled, an Arab and an Abyssinian wheeled their mounts close to his position as they slashed at each other with their swords.

Arab menaces Medina, The Aethiop has intrenched himself in Sennaar, And keeps the Egyptian rebel well employed, Who denies homage, claims investiture As price of tardy aid.

Miss Velis here just informed me that she is planning to move to Algeria, to live among the Arabs?

As for Algeria, he advocated a federation in which the Arab and European peoples would be equally represented.

But for the moment there were no dugouts, only the African troops who melted away under fire like multicolored wax dolls, and each day hundreds of new orphans, Arab and French, awakened in every corner of Algeria, sons and daughters without fathers who would now have to learn to live without guidance and without heritage.

I afterwards found that these fellows were not Arabs, but Algerine refugees, and that they bore the character of being sad scoundrels.

Because of that face he remained in Algiers, bought this house, spent years in restoring it, exactly in Arab style, and making a beautiful garden out of his fifteen or sixteen acres.

Emir of Bougie, who was favourable to our trade interests there, but all to no avail, every day our Arab friends were losing ground, these Almohads were already west of the Zurid Kingdom.

As Israel became a more modern, materialistic, sterile, Americanized society after 1967, many Israelis identified in their hearts with those men climbing the rocky hills of the West Bank, rifles in hand and barbed wire at their feet, keeping watch for the Arabs gathering in the distance.

On the twenty-fourth, at a meeting in Amman to commemorate the first anniversary of the ACC, Saddam gave a long speech in which he said that as a result of the decline of the USSR, the Arab world needed to band together to oppose American and Israeli machinations.

At the head of this formation rode a small group of Ansar on fine Arab steeds, which had been lovingly curried until their hides shone in the sunlight like polished metal.

It is often said that Europe owed much to the Arabs for this, but careful analysis of the factors in that progress shows that very little came from the Arabs that was good, while not a little that was unfortunate in its influence was borrowed from them with the translations of the Greek authors from that language, which constituted the main, indeed often the only, reason why Arabian writers were consulted.

Christianity in its relation to science will be very well understood, besides, from the fact that a number of the original physicians of Arab stock who attracted attention during the first period of Arabian medicine, that is, during the eighth and ninth centuries, were Christians.