单词 | arabize |
释义 | Arabizev.ΚΠ 1599 H. Broughton Explic. Lordes Soules 20 Now ther was neuer any book written..of a more curious style then Iob: in verse of many sortes: & vse of wordes more nyce then any Greke or Latin writeth: & for Grammer hath more trickes & difficulty then all the Bible beside: arabizing much: but fuller of Ebrew depth in language. 2. transitive. To give an Arabic form to (a word, etc., of another language); to turn into Arabic. ΚΠ 1689 tr. R. Simon Crit. Hist. Text New Test. i. xi. 93 There are in these Translations many Greek words that have been Syriacised and Arabised [Fr. arabisés]. 1824 Wesleyan-Methodist Mag. Feb. 107/2 Al Injeel li Isa would be ‘the Gospel by Jesus’. But Injeel Isa is more probably intended. Injeel is only ‘Evangelium’ arabized. 1977 S. K. Jayyusi & C. Tingley tr. S. K. Jayyusi Trends & Movements in Mod. Arabic Poetry II. viii. 664 He was very courageous in using foreign words which he Arabized. 2013 M. Abaza in L. Sadiki et al. Democratic Transition in Middle East v. 100 Arabic is mixed with English, or perhaps, the attempt is rather to Arabize English words. 3. transitive. To make Arab or Arabic in character; (also) to introduce or require the use of Arabic in. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > Semitic [verb (transitive)] > Arab Arabize1856 Arabianize1881 1856 R. F. Burton First Footsteps in E. Afr. vii. 288 The Somal, whose type has been Arabized by repeated immigrations from Yemen and Hadramaut. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Apr. 1/2 Those Mussulmans in the Soudan who have been more or less arabized. 1920 19th Cent. Aug. 229 The civil administration of the country should be Arabised to a greater extent. 1988 A. Bentahila in C. B. Paulston Internat. Handbk. Bilingualism & Bilingual Educ. xvi. 338 Many sections of the government administration have now been Arabized, but..French has not been eradicated from the domains of technology. 2002 D. L. Byman Keeping Peace ii. 16 Kurds in the north rightly considered the government to be dominated by Arab nationalists, intent on using the power of the state to Arabize the country. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1599 |
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