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ˈArabism
[mod. f. Arab + -ism; cf. F. arabisme.]
1. = Arabicism.
1614Selden Titles Hon. 98 Hee stiles himself Amir..In Arabisme [amīr]. 1751Chambers Cycl. s.v., So zealous a partizan of Arabisms. 1898Sayce Early Israel iii. 109 Hebrew had retained a few ‘Arabisms’, a few traces of its ancient contact with Arabic-speaking tribes. 1958Archivum Linguisticum X. 26 The Arabism bellota, absent from Portuguese.
2. The state or condition of being an Arab; the influence of Arab culture. Also, Arab nationalism, sympathy with Arab movements of self-assertion.
1874Draper Hist. Conflict Relig. & Sci. iii. 99 Arabism, which had done so much for the intellectual advancement of the world, came to an end when the Turks and the Berbers attained to power. 1952Middle East Jrnl. VI. 473/2 Arabism, now the creed of a large number of people, is not the only political philosophy in vogue in the Arab world. 1958Times 16 July 11/6 'Aruba, ‘arabism’ or ‘arabdom’, the word which is on the lips of every politician and the pen of every journalist, means the fact of being an Arab. The positive elements of arabism are not so much racial as a sense of common history, and, much more potent, the existence of a common language. |