Among the later Greeks and Romans, a name for the nomadic peoples of the Syro-Arabian desert which harassed the Syrian confines of the Empire…

A name used esp. by early Christian writers for any of various Arab Muslim peoples said to be descended from Hagar, the mother of Abraham's…

Originally: a member of a Semitic people of the Arabian peninsula, spec. a Bedouin. Later more generally: a member of any Arabic-speaking people; a…

A native or inhabitant of Turkey; (formerly) a member of the dominant race of the Ottoman empire; sometimes extended to any subject of the Grand Turk…

(a) Another form of Ishmaelite n. at Ishmael, n. derivatives. (b) A name formerly sometimes given (esp. by Jews) to the Arabs as descendants of…

(a descendant of Ishmael as the Arabs claim to be): figurative = Ishmael, n.

= Arab, n.1 (chiefly in senses 1 and 4b).

In specific uses. Sometimes as an abbreviation of the fuller names treated at compounds 1. British slang (originally and chiefly Military). (A…