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Arabic, a.|ˈærəbɪk|
Forms: 4 Arabik, 5 -yke, -yque, 6–8 -ick(e, 7 -ique, 8 -eck(e, 8– Arabic.
[a. OF. Arabic (13th c. in Litt.), ad. L. Arabicus.]
1. Of or pertaining to Arabia or its language. arabic numerals: the figures 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.
c1650Worthington Epist. Hartlib vii. (T.) His Arabick translation of Grotius. 1727–51Chambers Cycl., The Arabic characters stand contradistinguished to the Roman. 1858Longfellow M. Standish i. 9 Its mystical Arabic sentence.
2. esp. in gum arabic, which is exuded by certain species of Acacia, and arabic acid, obtained from it.
[a1500in Rel. Ant. I. 163 Put thereto iij ounces of gumme of Arabyke. 1590Greene Mourn. Garm. (1616) 9 The Arabick-tree, that yeelds no gumme but in the darke night.] 1616Surfl. & Markh. Countr. Farm 19 a, Adding thereto..Gum-arabecke, and Tragacanth. 1866Treas. Bot. 5/1 Gum arabic is an exudation from various species of acacia.
3. absol. The language of the Arabs.
c1391Chaucer Astrol. 2 To arabiens in arabik. 1485Caxton Chas. Gt. 206 A cyte called Salancadys, in arabyque. 1611Bible Pref. 5 John Bishop of Siuil [is reported] to haue turned them [the Scriptures] into Arabicke. 1871Earle Philol. Eng. Tong. §353 Those English (or rather European) nouns..derived from Arabic, as alchemy, alcohol, alcove, etc. |