ar·a·besque 
(ăr′ə-bĕsk)
(ăr′ə-bĕsk)n.
1. A ballet position executed while standing on one straight leg with one arm extended forward and the other arm and leg extended backward.
2. A complex, ornate design of intertwined floral, foliate, and geometric figures.
3. Music An ornate, whimsical composition especially for piano.
4. An intricate or elaborate pattern or design: "the complex arabesque of a camera movement" (Nigel Andrews).
adj.
In the fashion of or formed as an arabesque.
[French, from Italian arabesco, in Arabian fashion, from Arabo, an Arab, from Latin Arabus, from Arabs; see ARAB.]
arabesque- Indo-European root: ors-
- Indo-European root: ost-
- Indo-European root: ous-
- Indo-European root: owi-
- Indo-European root: pag-
- Indo-European root: pan-
- Indo-European root: pant-
- Indo-European root: papa
- Indo-European root: past-
- Indo-European root: pau-
- Indo-European root: pau-
- Indo-European root: paəwr̥
- Indo-European root: ped-
- Indo-European root: peig-
- Indo-European root: peiə-
- Indo-European root: peku-
- Indo-European root: pekw-
- Indo-European root: pel-
- Indo-European root: pel-
- Indo-European root: pel-
- Indo-European root: pel-
- Indo-European root: pel-
- Indo-European root: pelə-
- Indo-European root: pelə-
- Indo-European root: pelə-