Arabicn.adj.¹

Brit.

/ˈarəbɪk/, U.S.

/ˈɛrəbɪk/

Forms: Middle English Arabyque, Middle English–1500s Arabyke, Middle English–1600s Arabik, Middle English– Arabic, 1500s Arabike, 1500s Arrabeck, 1500s–1600s Arabecke, 1500s–1600s Arabicke, 1500s–1600s Arabique, 1500s–1700s Arabeck, 1500s–1800s Arabick, 1600s Arrabick, 1600s Aribeck; also Scottish pre-1700 Arabyk, pre-1700 Arrabyk.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French arabique; Latin Arabicus.

Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman arabik, arrabic, Anglo-Norman and Middle French arabic, arabich, arabique, Middle French arabech (French arabique ) (adjective) Arab or Arabian in origin (c1213 in Old French), designating the Semitic language of the Arabs, of, in, or relating to this language (1250), (noun) the Semitic language of the Arabs (1246, originally in en arabic ), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin Arabicus Arabian < Arabia (see Arabia n.) + -icus -ic suffix. With use as noun denoting the language of the Arabs compare post-classical Latin Arabicum (from 13th cent. in British sources in this sense). Compare Catalan aràbic (13th cent. as adjective and noun), Spanish arábigo (mid 13th cent. as adjective and noun; also †arábico ), Portuguese arábico (15th cent.; 14th cent. as †arauygo ), Italian arabico (second half of the 13th cent. as noun, earliest in sense ‘person of Arab descent’, early 14th cent. as adjective). With use as adjective compare Arabian adj., Araby adj., and later Arab adj.¹ With use as noun compare earlier Arab n.¹, Arabian n., Araby n.Compare earlier gum arabic n. Compare (with different suffix) Old English arabisc Arabian, only attested in the works of Ælfric ( < the name of Arabia + -ish suffix¹; compare Dutch arabisch (early 16th cent.), Middle Low German arābisch, Old High German arābisg (Middle High German arābisch, German arabisch)):OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 65 Hic et haec Arabs, arabisc man of þam lande Arabia.OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Corpus Cambr. 188) xvi. 534 Sum fugol is gehaten fenix on leden on arabiscre þeode æfre wuniende.

A. n.

A Semitic language spoken in much of the Middle East and North Africa.There are many varieties of Arabic (frequently denoted by a modifying word), including national and local dialects, Classical Arabic (see classical adj. and n. Compounds 2), and Modern Standard Arabic (see modern adj. and n. Compounds 2).

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the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [noun] > Semitic > Arabic

Araba1393

Arabicc1400

arabesquea1456

Arabian1570

Arabism1614

wog1947

c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) Prol. 2 To arabiens in arabik.

1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. kvj^v/2 A cyte called Salancadys in arabyque.

1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. iv. sig. J.viii The Marouines agre in opinion with the Iacobites, Their lettres and tongue are al one with the Arabique.

1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 5 John Bishop of Siuil [is reported] to haue turned them [sc. the Scriptures] into Arabicke.

1678 M. D. tr. J. M. Wansleben Present State Egypt 208 The Cloth with which they cover Mahomets tomb, which they call in Arabick, Il Mahmel.

1734 G. Sale Preliminary Disc. vii. 150 in tr. Koran The first of them is called, in Arabic, Id al fetr, i.e. The feast of breaking the fast.

1777 London Rev. Eng. & Foreign Lit. June 430 We now perceive two languages prevailing through that kingdom, the original Roman or Latin, and the Arabic introduced by these new inhabitants.

1801 Scots Mag. July 589/2 A dictionary of the vulgar Egyptian Arabic, has appeared at Paris.

1813 Q. Rev. Oct. 269 The Maltese is immediately derived from the modern Arabic, without any intervention from the Punic.

1841 G. Borrow Zincali II. iii. 119 Their equivalents in the Moorish Arabic.

1873 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) vii. 327 Those English (or rather European) nouns..derived from Arabic, as alchemy, alcohol, alcove, [etc.].

1904 Speaker 24 Dec. 320/1 Translations from the Turkish, Arabic,..or Moldavian.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VII. 75/1 Mozarabic retained many archaic Latin forms and borrowed many words from Arabic.

1992 Eng. Today Apr. 34/1 This is how the q is pronounced in colloquial Libyan Arabic.

2008 D. Crystal Txtng ii. 26 It is a perfectly normal system in several languages, such as Arabic and Hebrew.

B. adj.¹

a. Designating the Semitic language of the Arabs (see sense A.); of or relating to this language.

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the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [adjective] > Semitic > Arabic

Arabic?a1425

Araby?c1425

Arabian1575

Arabican1607

Arabist1854

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 2^v (MED) Translated of arabic [?c1425 Paris Arabye] tonge [L. de arabica lingua].

a1500 Disciplina Clericalis in Western Reserve Univ. Bull. (1919) 22 13 Enoch the philosophre, whiche in Arabik tung is named Edriche.

1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus Pref. Put in wryting by men that used the Punicall or els the Arabicke tonge.

1615 W. Bedwell Arabian Trudgman in tr. Mohammedis Imposturæ sig. M3 The mouth of the narrow seas..is after the Arabicke name vulgarly..called Estrecho de Gibraltar.

1661 J. Worthington Let. 8 May in Diary & Corr. (1847) I. 308 His Arabick translation of Grotius.

1771 W. Jones Gram. Persian Lang. 15 Our books are printed in the Niskhi hand, and all Arabick manuscripts..are written in it.

1824 Crit. Res. in Philol. & Geogr. i. 99 We are at a loss to understand how the study of the Arabic language and literature, can be duly prosecuted amid the distractions.

1896 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 16 63 The lines of an Arabic poem..are so written that the terminal letter..is repeated in unbroken succession down the page.

1949 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1948 128 It is especially helpful that there are things called English words and Arabic words.

1991 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 5 Dec. 38/3 The preparation of a comprehensive Arabic dictionary is now underway.

b. Designating a script used for writing Arabic, esp. the cursive script used for writing modern Arabic, consisting of twenty-eight consonants with vowels indicated by additional marks; (also) designating modified forms of this script used for writing other languages, as Persian and Urdu. Also: of or belonging to this script.

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society > communication > writing > system of writing > [adjective] > of specific languages > Arabic

Arabic1592

Kufic1706

naskhi1771

Arabian1896

1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 14^v I beheld certaine letters Ionic and Arabic.

1600 T. Bernhere Let. in S. Purchas Pilgrimes (1625) II. vi. ii. 852 Abdala Wahed being a perfect Pen-man, can set the Arabique letters, figures, and words downe very faire.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 38 The Mammoody and Roopee are..cover'd with Arabick letters.

1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 80 He has sent 3 Lectures to be printed at Oxford (they wanting Arabick Types at Cambridge).

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Arabic Characters stand contradistinguished to the Roman.

1803 European Mag. & London Rev. Apr. 297/1 They [sc. the Ceylonese] make use of the Arabic character in writing, which is performed on the leaves of the Talipot tree.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. viii. lx. 198 The wood was beautifully incised with Arabic lettering.

1920 R. O. Winstedt Colloquial Malay (ed. 2) 138 The Malay word spelt in Arabic characters is a puzzle to be solved by the possession of a large vocabulary.

1948 D. Diringer Alphabet 568 The Arabic character has also been adopted for..Nogai Turkish.

2008 Nature 23 Oct. 1034/1 The Aramaic script was itself extinguished in the seventh century AD by the Arabic script, which developed from Aramaic.

c. Designating the system of numerals written 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.; of or relating to this system. Chiefly in Arabic numeral. Contrasted with Roman adj.¹ 4b.Arabic numerals reached western Europe through Arabia by c1200, but probably originated in India.

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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [adjective] > written or designated by figures > Arabic numerals

Arabical1535

Arabic1756

1756 Gentleman's Mag. May 239/1 The learned are not quite agreed when the Arabic numerals were first brought into use in this nation.

1798 C. Hutton Course Math. I. 4 The Numbers in Arithmetic are expressed by the..ten digits, or Arabic numeral figures.

1846 Ecclesiastic 1 332 It looks respectable and Review-like to see those nice little Arabic numbers.

1888 W. W. R. Ball Hist. Math. x. 160 It [sc. the Liber abbaci] had a wide circulation and practically introduced the use of the Arabic numerals into Christian Europe.

1928 Science 10 Feb. 142/1 The advent of the Arabic system, with its decimal point and with zero as a ‘place-holder’, marked a new era for the natural sciences as well as for mathematics.

1962 E. Bruton Dict. Clocks & Watches (1963) 13 Crusaders found Arabic numbers much more convenient than Roman.

1998 S. Budiansky If Lion could Talk iv. 98 Apes who have been trained to correctly identify the number of objects in a set by picking from a series of buttons or cards labeled with Arabic numerals.

2. Designating an Arab or a person of Arab descent; Arab or Arabian in origin, character, or design.

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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Arabia > [adjective]

Scenite1600

Arabic1611

Howeitat1838

Bedouin1844

Sherari1888

Rwala1918

Bedu1959

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Near East, Middle East, and Asia Minor > [adjective] > Middle East > Arabia

Arabical1535

Arabic1611

Petraean1614

Arabian1771

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. xxxi. 240/1 Iulius Philippus the Arabick Bar[b]arian..who pluckt off the imperiall robes of his Liege-Lord, to inuest himselfe.

a1618 P. Simson Hist. Church (1624) i. 99 In stead of money they receiued contumelious words, and were called Arabik dogs by the Emperours treasurer.

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. v. 83 Can anything be more irrational, absurd and fabulous, then those Arabick traditions which that author scrapes as much for, as Æsops Cock did on the Dunghill?

1708 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum (ed. 2) I. at Sexagesimal The Number of Days, whereby the Arabic Years of the Hegira begin later than our Account by the Years of our Lord.

1795 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 648/1 Dissertation on Arabic Coins..by which it appears that the Mohammedan princes copied the heads of Greek and Roman ones on their coins.

1820 J. Crawfurd Hist. Indian Archipel. I. 274 The Bahara, an Arabic weight, is occasionally used in weighting pepper.

1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 70/1 The modern Egyptian ‘'ȗd’ is the direct descendant of the Arabic lute.

1950 Western Horseman Sept. 10/2 Spain's first school of riding..followed the classic Arabic style of riding and handling of horses.

1976 D. Topolski Muzungu iv. 50 Tall, dignified, lean Nuer, Shilluk or Dinka men from the south mingled with the lighter skinned Arabic northerners.

2002 L. Purves Radio (2003) xvi. 225 The explorer Tim Severin, who was building an Arabic ship..to follow the voyages of Sindbad the Sailor.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

Arabic professor n.

ΚΠ

1644 J. Pell Let. 20 Aug. in J. Pell Corr. with C. Cavendish (2005) 358 Offering so much money to our Arabicke professor at Utrecht.

1740 J. Ward Lives Professors Gresham Coll. 137 During this tour, he heard the famous Arabic professor at Leyden, James Golius.

1835 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 433/2 In 1808 he was appointed to succeed Capt. Baillie, as Persian and Arabic Professor.

1906 Cambr. Univ. Cal. 605 John Palmer, late Arabic Professor, bequeathed £1000 for the perpetual augmentation of the Stipend.

2014 K. C. Ryding Arabic iii. 32 As my very first Arabic professor constantly reminded us, ‘Two sukuuns never meet’.

C2. Objective.

Arabic speaker n.

ΚΠ

1819 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. May 478/1 It must be candidly conceded to purer Persian and Arabic speakers, that our e of wet, bet, would better designate their elif, zeber, fethe.

1885 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 11 285 A native Arabic speaker is the last to give credit to a foreigner.

1956 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 40 69/2 In attempts at oral imitation, the Arabic speaker tends to produce the vowel sound in ‘sear’ when saying ‘sir’.

2006 New Yorker 10 July 67/2 He was an Arabic speaker and an F.B.I. agent on the ground who was running circles around them.

Arabic-speaking adj.

ΚΠ

1851 Rep. Amer. Board Commissioners Foreign Missions 84 The Greek element which seems to characterize the Arabic-speaking Christians west of the Euphrates..is wanting in those more oriental communities.

1966 C. Siragusa & R. Wiedrich Trail of Poppy (Gloss.) 222 Arak, a spirituous liquor distilled from grain, grapes or plums, consumed in Lebanon, Syria and other Arabic-speaking countries.

2003 New Yorker 10 Mar. 53/1 Since he spoke no Urdu, Dari, or Pashto, the Taliban recruitment office he reported to in Kabul told him he would have to join a non-Afghan, Arabic-speaking unit.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	arabic
释义	Arabicn.adj.¹ Brit. /ˈarəbɪk/, U.S. /ˈɛrəbɪk/ Forms: Middle English Arabyque, Middle English–1500s Arabyke, Middle English–1600s Arabik, Middle English– Arabic, 1500s Arabike, 1500s Arrabeck, 1500s–1600s Arabecke, 1500s–1600s Arabicke, 1500s–1600s Arabique, 1500s–1700s Arabeck, 1500s–1800s Arabick, 1600s Arrabick, 1600s Aribeck; also Scottish pre-1700 Arabyk, pre-1700 Arrabyk. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French arabique; Latin Arabicus. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman arabik, arrabic, Anglo-Norman and Middle French arabic, arabich, arabique, Middle French arabech (French arabique ) (adjective) Arab or Arabian in origin (c1213 in Old French), designating the Semitic language of the Arabs, of, in, or relating to this language (1250), (noun) the Semitic language of the Arabs (1246, originally in en arabic ), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin Arabicus Arabian < Arabia (see Arabia n.) + -icus -ic suffix. With use as noun denoting the language of the Arabs compare post-classical Latin Arabicum (from 13th cent. in British sources in this sense). Compare Catalan aràbic (13th cent. as adjective and noun), Spanish arábigo (mid 13th cent. as adjective and noun; also †arábico ), Portuguese arábico (15th cent.; 14th cent. as †arauygo ), Italian arabico (second half of the 13th cent. as noun, earliest in sense ‘person of Arab descent’, early 14th cent. as adjective). With use as adjective compare Arabian adj., Araby adj., and later Arab adj.¹ With use as noun compare earlier Arab n.¹, Arabian n., Araby n.Compare earlier gum arabic n. Compare (with different suffix) Old English arabisc Arabian, only attested in the works of Ælfric ( < the name of Arabia + -ish suffix¹; compare Dutch arabisch (early 16th cent.), Middle Low German arābisch, Old High German arābisg (Middle High German arābisch, German arabisch)):OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 65 Hic et haec Arabs, arabisc man of þam lande Arabia.OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Corpus Cambr. 188) xvi. 534 Sum fugol is gehaten fenix on leden on arabiscre þeode æfre wuniende. A. n. A Semitic language spoken in much of the Middle East and North Africa.There are many varieties of Arabic (frequently denoted by a modifying word), including national and local dialects, Classical Arabic (see classical adj. and n. Compounds 2), and Modern Standard Arabic (see modern adj. and n. Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [noun] > Semitic > Arabic Araba1393 Arabicc1400 arabesquea1456 Arabian1570 Arabism1614 wog1947 c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) Prol. 2 To arabiens in arabik. 1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. kvj^v/2 A cyte called Salancadys in arabyque. 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. iv. sig. J.viii The Marouines agre in opinion with the Iacobites, Their lettres and tongue are al one with the Arabique. 1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 5 John Bishop of Siuil [is reported] to haue turned them [sc. the Scriptures] into Arabicke. 1678 M. D. tr. J. M. Wansleben Present State Egypt 208 The Cloth with which they cover Mahomets tomb, which they call in Arabick, Il Mahmel. 1734 G. Sale Preliminary Disc. vii. 150 in tr. Koran The first of them is called, in Arabic, Id al fetr, i.e. The feast of breaking the fast. 1777 London Rev. Eng. & Foreign Lit. June 430 We now perceive two languages prevailing through that kingdom, the original Roman or Latin, and the Arabic introduced by these new inhabitants. 1801 Scots Mag. July 589/2 A dictionary of the vulgar Egyptian Arabic, has appeared at Paris. 1813 Q. Rev. Oct. 269 The Maltese is immediately derived from the modern Arabic, without any intervention from the Punic. 1841 G. Borrow Zincali II. iii. 119 Their equivalents in the Moorish Arabic. 1873 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) vii. 327 Those English (or rather European) nouns..derived from Arabic, as alchemy, alcohol, alcove, [etc.]. 1904 Speaker 24 Dec. 320/1 Translations from the Turkish, Arabic,..or Moldavian. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VII. 75/1 Mozarabic retained many archaic Latin forms and borrowed many words from Arabic. 1992 Eng. Today Apr. 34/1 This is how the q is pronounced in colloquial Libyan Arabic. 2008 D. Crystal Txtng ii. 26 It is a perfectly normal system in several languages, such as Arabic and Hebrew. B. adj.¹ 1. a. Designating the Semitic language of the Arabs (see sense A.); of or relating to this language. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [adjective] > Semitic > Arabic Arabic?a1425 Araby?c1425 Arabian1575 Arabican1607 Arabist1854 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 2^v (MED) Translated of arabic [?c1425 Paris Arabye] tonge [L. de arabica lingua]. a1500 Disciplina Clericalis in Western Reserve Univ. Bull. (1919) 22 13 Enoch the philosophre, whiche in Arabik tung is named Edriche. 1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus Pref. Put in wryting by men that used the Punicall or els the Arabicke tonge. 1615 W. Bedwell Arabian Trudgman in tr. Mohammedis Imposturæ sig. M3 The mouth of the narrow seas..is after the Arabicke name vulgarly..called Estrecho de Gibraltar. 1661 J. Worthington Let. 8 May in Diary & Corr. (1847) I. 308 His Arabick translation of Grotius. 1771 W. Jones Gram. Persian Lang. 15 Our books are printed in the Niskhi hand, and all Arabick manuscripts..are written in it. 1824 Crit. Res. in Philol. & Geogr. i. 99 We are at a loss to understand how the study of the Arabic language and literature, can be duly prosecuted amid the distractions. 1896 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 16 63 The lines of an Arabic poem..are so written that the terminal letter..is repeated in unbroken succession down the page. 1949 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1948 128 It is especially helpful that there are things called English words and Arabic words. 1991 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 5 Dec. 38/3 The preparation of a comprehensive Arabic dictionary is now underway. b. Designating a script used for writing Arabic, esp. the cursive script used for writing modern Arabic, consisting of twenty-eight consonants with vowels indicated by additional marks; (also) designating modified forms of this script used for writing other languages, as Persian and Urdu. Also: of or belonging to this script. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > system of writing > [adjective] > of specific languages > Arabic Arabic1592 Kufic1706 naskhi1771 Arabian1896 1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 14^v I beheld certaine letters Ionic and Arabic. 1600 T. Bernhere Let. in S. Purchas Pilgrimes (1625) II. vi. ii. 852 Abdala Wahed being a perfect Pen-man, can set the Arabique letters, figures, and words downe very faire. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 38 The Mammoody and Roopee are..cover'd with Arabick letters. 1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 80 He has sent 3 Lectures to be printed at Oxford (they wanting Arabick Types at Cambridge). 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Arabic Characters stand contradistinguished to the Roman. 1803 European Mag. & London Rev. Apr. 297/1 They [sc. the Ceylonese] make use of the Arabic character in writing, which is performed on the leaves of the Talipot tree. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. viii. lx. 198 The wood was beautifully incised with Arabic lettering. 1920 R. O. Winstedt Colloquial Malay (ed. 2) 138 The Malay word spelt in Arabic characters is a puzzle to be solved by the possession of a large vocabulary. 1948 D. Diringer Alphabet 568 The Arabic character has also been adopted for..Nogai Turkish. 2008 Nature 23 Oct. 1034/1 The Aramaic script was itself extinguished in the seventh century AD by the Arabic script, which developed from Aramaic. c. Designating the system of numerals written 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.; of or relating to this system. Chiefly in Arabic numeral. Contrasted with Roman adj.¹ 4b.Arabic numerals reached western Europe through Arabia by c1200, but probably originated in India. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [adjective] > written or designated by figures > Arabic numerals Arabical1535 Arabic1756 1756 Gentleman's Mag. May 239/1 The learned are not quite agreed when the Arabic numerals were first brought into use in this nation. 1798 C. Hutton Course Math. I. 4 The Numbers in Arithmetic are expressed by the..ten digits, or Arabic numeral figures. 1846 Ecclesiastic 1 332 It looks respectable and Review-like to see those nice little Arabic numbers. 1888 W. W. R. Ball Hist. Math. x. 160 It [sc. the Liber abbaci] had a wide circulation and practically introduced the use of the Arabic numerals into Christian Europe. 1928 Science 10 Feb. 142/1 The advent of the Arabic system, with its decimal point and with zero as a ‘place-holder’, marked a new era for the natural sciences as well as for mathematics. 1962 E. Bruton Dict. Clocks & Watches (1963) 13 Crusaders found Arabic numbers much more convenient than Roman. 1998 S. Budiansky If Lion could Talk iv. 98 Apes who have been trained to correctly identify the number of objects in a set by picking from a series of buttons or cards labeled with Arabic numerals. 2. Designating an Arab or a person of Arab descent; Arab or Arabian in origin, character, or design. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Arabia > [adjective] Scenite1600 Arabic1611 Howeitat1838 Bedouin1844 Sherari1888 Rwala1918 Bedu1959 the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Near East, Middle East, and Asia Minor > [adjective] > Middle East > Arabia Arabical1535 Arabic1611 Petraean1614 Arabian1771 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. xxxi. 240/1 Iulius Philippus the Arabick Bar[b]arian..who pluckt off the imperiall robes of his Liege-Lord, to inuest himselfe. a1618 P. Simson Hist. Church (1624) i. 99 In stead of money they receiued contumelious words, and were called Arabik dogs by the Emperours treasurer. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. v. 83 Can anything be more irrational, absurd and fabulous, then those Arabick traditions which that author scrapes as much for, as Æsops Cock did on the Dunghill? 1708 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum (ed. 2) I. at Sexagesimal The Number of Days, whereby the Arabic Years of the Hegira begin later than our Account by the Years of our Lord. 1795 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 648/1 Dissertation on Arabic Coins..by which it appears that the Mohammedan princes copied the heads of Greek and Roman ones on their coins. 1820 J. Crawfurd Hist. Indian Archipel. I. 274 The Bahara, an Arabic weight, is occasionally used in weighting pepper. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 70/1 The modern Egyptian ‘'ȗd’ is the direct descendant of the Arabic lute. 1950 Western Horseman Sept. 10/2 Spain's first school of riding..followed the classic Arabic style of riding and handling of horses. 1976 D. Topolski Muzungu iv. 50 Tall, dignified, lean Nuer, Shilluk or Dinka men from the south mingled with the lighter skinned Arabic northerners. 2002 L. Purves Radio (2003) xvi. 225 The explorer Tim Severin, who was building an Arabic ship..to follow the voyages of Sindbad the Sailor. Compounds C1. General attributive. Arabic professor n. ΚΠ 1644 J. Pell Let. 20 Aug. in J. Pell Corr. with C. Cavendish (2005) 358 Offering so much money to our Arabicke professor at Utrecht. 1740 J. Ward Lives Professors Gresham Coll. 137 During this tour, he heard the famous Arabic professor at Leyden, James Golius. 1835 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 433/2 In 1808 he was appointed to succeed Capt. Baillie, as Persian and Arabic Professor. 1906 Cambr. Univ. Cal. 605 John Palmer, late Arabic Professor, bequeathed £1000 for the perpetual augmentation of the Stipend. 2014 K. C. Ryding Arabic iii. 32 As my very first Arabic professor constantly reminded us, ‘Two sukuuns never meet’. C2. Objective. Arabic speaker n. ΚΠ 1819 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. May 478/1 It must be candidly conceded to purer Persian and Arabic speakers, that our e of wet, bet, would better designate their elif, zeber, fethe. 1885 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 11 285 A native Arabic speaker is the last to give credit to a foreigner. 1956 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 40 69/2 In attempts at oral imitation, the Arabic speaker tends to produce the vowel sound in ‘sear’ when saying ‘sir’. 2006 New Yorker 10 July 67/2 He was an Arabic speaker and an F.B.I. agent on the ground who was running circles around them. Arabic-speaking adj. ΚΠ 1851 Rep. Amer. Board Commissioners Foreign Missions 84 The Greek element which seems to characterize the Arabic-speaking Christians west of the Euphrates..is wanting in those more oriental communities. 1966 C. Siragusa & R. Wiedrich Trail of Poppy (Gloss.) 222 Arak, a spirituous liquor distilled from grain, grapes or plums, consumed in Lebanon, Syria and other Arabic-speaking countries. 2003 New Yorker 10 Mar. 53/1 Since he spoke no Urdu, Dari, or Pashto, the Taliban recruitment office he reported to in Kabul told him he would have to join a non-Afghan, Arabic-speaking unit. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). arabicadj.² Brit. /əˈrabɪk/, U.S. /əˈræbɪk/ Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: gum arabic n. Etymology: < arabic (in gum arabic n.); compare -ic suffix 1b.In sense ‘arabinic acid’ after French acide arabique (1859 or earlier), itself after German Arabinsäure arabinic acid (see arabinic adj.). Chemistry. arabic acid n. †(a) (perhaps) = gummic acid n. at gummic adj. (obsolete rare); (b) = arabinic acid n. at arabinic adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > acids obtained from plants or trees > [noun] > miscellaneous others rheumic acid1816 arabic acida1836 rubiacic acid1835 aspartic acid1836 sylvic acid1836 tannic acid1836 oenanthic acid1837 gummic acid1838 retinic acid1838 roccellic acid1838 rubinic acid1838 lobelic acid1840 polychromatic acid1840 rhabarbaric acid1840 roccelline1840 humic1844 sumbulolic acid1844 isatic acid1845 opianic acid1845 parthenic acid1845 polychromic acid1847 styphnic acid1848 metapectic acid1849 tanningenic acid1852 jalapic acid1853 jalapinolic acid1855 sinapic acid1857 amalic acid1863 phycic acid1864 filicic acid1865 isamic acid1865 tannocaffeic acidc1865 tricarballylic acid1865 guaiaretic acid1866 pectous acid1866 phytomelin1866 porphyric acid1866 thujetic acid1868 turpetholic acid1868 viridic acid1868 rheotannic acid1869 arabinic acid1870 frangulic1872 sclerotic acid1876 theobromic acid1878 gynocardic acid1897 chaulmoogric acid1904 a1836 W. C. Spooner Vet. Art in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VII. 911/1 The following lotion will be the most effectual:—Sal ammoniac, 1 oz. Arabic acid, 2 ozs. Spirits of wine, 1 oz. Cold water, 20 ozs. 1860 Q. Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 12 339 On arabic acid, and the gum-resins of myrrh and olibanum: by W. Hekmeyer. 1883 Athenæum 29 Dec. 871/1 The molecule of arabic acid, C₈₉H₁₄₂O₇₄, is broken down. 1949 F. N. Howes Veg. Gums & Resins i. 9 In gum arabic, each molecule of the glucosidal acid (termed arabic acid), yields on hydrolysis, two molecules of arabinose and four of galactose. 2003 D. Hoffmann Med. Herbalism iv. 52/1 Arabic acid, made up of calcium, potassium, and magnesium salts, is a major constituent of acacia gum. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.¹c1400adj.²a1836
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