Arabistn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈarəbɪst/, U.S.

/ˈɛrəbəst/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Arab adj.¹, -ist suffix.

Etymology: < Arab adj.¹ + -ist suffix. In senses A. 1b, B. 1a after post-classical Latin Arabista student or practitioner of Arabism (1541 in a French source, or earlier). Compare Middle French, French arabiste (1547 or earlier in Middle French as noun in sense ‘student or practitioner of Arabism’, 1805 or earlier as adjective, designating such a physician). Compare Arabism n. 3. Compare also German Arabist (1753 or earlier in sense ‘student or practitioner of Arabism’, 1832 or earlier in the now usual sense ‘student or scholar of Arabic’).With senses A. 2 and B. 2 compare French arabiste (1898 or earlier as noun and adjective in these senses). The sense ‘student or scholar of Arabic’ is attested later for the French noun (1889 or earlier) than in English.

A. n.

a. A student of or expert in the Arabic language or Arab culture.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > [noun] > study of literature > one who studies Arabic literature

Arabist1656

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

Arabist1656

1656 E. Leigh Treat. Relig. & Learning iv. viii. 239 Petrus Kirstenius a great Arabist of Germany. He hath published divers things about the Arabick Tongue.

1791 Analyt. Rev. Feb. 205 We are far from thinking that they [sc. Oriental dialects] are of so great utility as Schultens and other Dutch Arabists would have us to believe.

1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. 312 The same excellent Arabist is now employed upon a Moorish and Arabian Grammar.

1904 Forum Oct. 245 The Dutch Arabist, Hurgronje, is mentioned as the only European who has seen the life of Mecca under normal conditions, all other explorers having visited it at the time of the great pilgrimages.

1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) xcv. 505 Dawnay was no Arabist, and neither Peake, his camel-expert, nor Marshall, his doctor, was fluent.

1996 Church Times 6 Dec. 8/2 He was a skilled Arabist, and had a warm understanding of the Arab Episcopal Church and of his Muslim friends.

b. A student or practitioner of Arabism (Arabism n. 3). historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > of specific schools or theoretical standpoints > medieval

tartarer1662

Arabist1753

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Severinus [sc. Marco Aurelio Severino, 17th-cent. Italian medical scientist] gives all the surgeons in the thirteenth century the title Arabists.

1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth I. xxvi. 332 Now there is settled of late in this town a pestilent Arabist..who despising anatomy, and scarce knowing Greek from Hebrew, hath yet spirited away half my patients.

1913 F. H. Garrison Introd. Hist. Med. vii. 109 The most prominent of the Arabists..were associated with the rise of the medical school at Montpelier.

2003 R. French Med. before Sci. v. 152 The Arabists, the Hellenists and the ‘establishment’ school doctors had radically different ideas.

2. A supporter of Arab interests or causes; spec. an Arab nationalist, a pan-Arabist.

ΚΠ

1953 J. Kimche Seven Fallen Pillars (new ed.) xxvi. 375 Conservatives, Socialists, Liberals, Zionists, Arabists and anti-Zionists joined in a common chorus of denunciation.

1977 Times 26 Nov. 14/7 For many years I have been a supporter of the dispossessed Palestinian Arabs... If on this account I am called an Arabist, I gladly accept the label.

1998 Islamic Stud. 37 479 It would take a whole decade for the Arabists' self-confidence to be restored and the project for Arab unity to be re-launched.

2004 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 Jan. 15/4 Kennedy's opening gestures to the Arab countries had the support not only of longtime Arabists but also of liberals.

B. adj.

a. Of or relating to Arabism (Arabism n. 3). historical.

ΚΠ

1839 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 2) 653/2 Measures of the Arabian, Arabist, and Latin Physicians of the Middle Ages.

1894 E. T. Withington Med. Hist. from Earliest Times xliv. 251 The doctrine that the heavenly bodies..exert an influence on the human frame..was especially favoured by the Arabist school of medicine.

1913 F. H. Garrison Introd. Hist. Med. vii. 111 His Rosa Anglica, compiled in 1314,..is otherwise mainly a farrago of Arabist quackeries and countryside superstitions.

1992 L. N. Magner Hist. Med. vii. 161 The medical humanists attacked what they called corrupt Arabist methods.

b. Of or relating to the study of the Arabic language or Arab culture.

ΘΚΠ

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

Arabic?a1425

Araby?c1425

Arabian1575

Arabican1607

Arabist1854

1854 J. B. Manning Voice of Lett. 21 So forms, else analogous, end in disguise, To give them their fashion for Arabist eyes.

1886 Jrnl. China Branch Royal Asiatic Soc. 20 155 At this early date there were eminent Arabist scholars in Italy.

1925 Manch. Guardian 16 Oct. 8/7 One of the latest recruits to the Labour party is Mr. St. John Philby, the eminent Arabist scholar.

2001 Anthropol. Linguistics 43 368 To show that the creoles can be comfortably excluded from the core of Arabist studies.

2. Of or relating to Arab nationalism; pan-Arabist; (also) supporting Arab interests or causes, pro-Arab.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > nationalism > [adjective] > specific

pan-Slavic1848

pan-Slavistic1848

pan-Slavonic1848

Panhellenist1850

pan-Arab1881

pan-Arabic1881

pan-Africander1884

Zionistic1894

Zionist1896

pan-Germanistic1903

Africanistic1904

Arab nationalist1913

pan-Germanist1916

Ottomanizing1917

Yiddishist1920

pan-Arabist1956

Arabist1957

pan-Africanist1957

Africanist1958

1957 Times 26 Apr. 11/2 He is accepted as the spokesman of the Arabist ideal and of the emergent middle class.

1984 Foreign Affairs 62 1264 He was a staunch representative of the ‘Arabist’ point of view in the Foreign Service.

1991 World Press Rev. Nov. 24/2 By undermining Egypt's historical role as leader of the secular Arabist movement it also created a power vacuum there.

2006 D. K. Fieldhouse Western Imperialism in Middle East 1914–58 iii. 92 There were sufficiently strong nationalistic and Arabist feelings..to make it very difficult to find a formula that would satisfy both British demands and Iraqi claims to independence.

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

单词	arabist
释义	Arabistn.adj. Brit. /ˈarəbɪst/, U.S. /ˈɛrəbəst/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Arab adj.¹, -ist suffix. Etymology: < Arab adj.¹ + -ist suffix. In senses A. 1b, B. 1a after post-classical Latin Arabista student or practitioner of Arabism (1541 in a French source, or earlier). Compare Middle French, French arabiste (1547 or earlier in Middle French as noun in sense ‘student or practitioner of Arabism’, 1805 or earlier as adjective, designating such a physician). Compare Arabism n. 3. Compare also German Arabist (1753 or earlier in sense ‘student or practitioner of Arabism’, 1832 or earlier in the now usual sense ‘student or scholar of Arabic’).With senses A. 2 and B. 2 compare French arabiste (1898 or earlier as noun and adjective in these senses). The sense ‘student or scholar of Arabic’ is attested later for the French noun (1889 or earlier) than in English. A. n. 1. a. A student of or expert in the Arabic language or Arab culture. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > [noun] > study of literature > one who studies Arabic literature Arabist1656 the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [noun] > Semitic > Arabic > student of Arabic Arabist1656 1656 E. Leigh Treat. Relig. & Learning iv. viii. 239 Petrus Kirstenius a great Arabist of Germany. He hath published divers things about the Arabick Tongue. 1791 Analyt. Rev. Feb. 205 We are far from thinking that they [sc. Oriental dialects] are of so great utility as Schultens and other Dutch Arabists would have us to believe. 1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. 312 The same excellent Arabist is now employed upon a Moorish and Arabian Grammar. 1904 Forum Oct. 245 The Dutch Arabist, Hurgronje, is mentioned as the only European who has seen the life of Mecca under normal conditions, all other explorers having visited it at the time of the great pilgrimages. 1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) xcv. 505 Dawnay was no Arabist, and neither Peake, his camel-expert, nor Marshall, his doctor, was fluent. 1996 Church Times 6 Dec. 8/2 He was a skilled Arabist, and had a warm understanding of the Arab Episcopal Church and of his Muslim friends. b. A student or practitioner of Arabism (Arabism n. 3). historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > of specific schools or theoretical standpoints > medieval tartarer1662 Arabist1753 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Severinus [sc. Marco Aurelio Severino, 17th-cent. Italian medical scientist] gives all the surgeons in the thirteenth century the title Arabists. 1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth I. xxvi. 332 Now there is settled of late in this town a pestilent Arabist..who despising anatomy, and scarce knowing Greek from Hebrew, hath yet spirited away half my patients. 1913 F. H. Garrison Introd. Hist. Med. vii. 109 The most prominent of the Arabists..were associated with the rise of the medical school at Montpelier. 2003 R. French Med. before Sci. v. 152 The Arabists, the Hellenists and the ‘establishment’ school doctors had radically different ideas. 2. A supporter of Arab interests or causes; spec. an Arab nationalist, a pan-Arabist. ΚΠ 1953 J. Kimche Seven Fallen Pillars (new ed.) xxvi. 375 Conservatives, Socialists, Liberals, Zionists, Arabists and anti-Zionists joined in a common chorus of denunciation. 1977 Times 26 Nov. 14/7 For many years I have been a supporter of the dispossessed Palestinian Arabs... If on this account I am called an Arabist, I gladly accept the label. 1998 Islamic Stud. 37 479 It would take a whole decade for the Arabists' self-confidence to be restored and the project for Arab unity to be re-launched. 2004 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 Jan. 15/4 Kennedy's opening gestures to the Arab countries had the support not only of longtime Arabists but also of liberals. B. adj. 1. a. Of or relating to Arabism (Arabism n. 3). historical. ΚΠ 1839 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 2) 653/2 Measures of the Arabian, Arabist, and Latin Physicians of the Middle Ages. 1894 E. T. Withington Med. Hist. from Earliest Times xliv. 251 The doctrine that the heavenly bodies..exert an influence on the human frame..was especially favoured by the Arabist school of medicine. 1913 F. H. Garrison Introd. Hist. Med. vii. 111 His Rosa Anglica, compiled in 1314,..is otherwise mainly a farrago of Arabist quackeries and countryside superstitions. 1992 L. N. Magner Hist. Med. vii. 161 The medical humanists attacked what they called corrupt Arabist methods. b. Of or relating to the study of the Arabic language or Arab culture. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [adjective] > Semitic > Arabic Arabic?a1425 Araby?c1425 Arabian1575 Arabican1607 Arabist1854 1854 J. B. Manning Voice of Lett. 21 So forms, else analogous, end in disguise, To give them their fashion for Arabist eyes. 1886 Jrnl. China Branch Royal Asiatic Soc. 20 155 At this early date there were eminent Arabist scholars in Italy. 1925 Manch. Guardian 16 Oct. 8/7 One of the latest recruits to the Labour party is Mr. St. John Philby, the eminent Arabist scholar. 2001 Anthropol. Linguistics 43 368 To show that the creoles can be comfortably excluded from the core of Arabist studies. 2. Of or relating to Arab nationalism; pan-Arabist; (also) supporting Arab interests or causes, pro-Arab. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > nationalism > [adjective] > specific pan-Slavic1848 pan-Slavistic1848 pan-Slavonic1848 Panhellenist1850 pan-Arab1881 pan-Arabic1881 pan-Africander1884 Zionistic1894 Zionist1896 pan-Germanistic1903 Africanistic1904 Arab nationalist1913 pan-Germanist1916 Ottomanizing1917 Yiddishist1920 pan-Arabist1956 Arabist1957 pan-Africanist1957 Africanist1958 1957 Times 26 Apr. 11/2 He is accepted as the spokesman of the Arabist ideal and of the emergent middle class. 1984 Foreign Affairs 62 1264 He was a staunch representative of the ‘Arabist’ point of view in the Foreign Service. 1991 World Press Rev. Nov. 24/2 By undermining Egypt's historical role as leader of the secular Arabist movement it also created a power vacuum there. 2006 D. K. Fieldhouse Western Imperialism in Middle East 1914–58 iii. 92 There were sufficiently strong nationalistic and Arabist feelings..to make it very difficult to find a formula that would satisfy both British demands and Iraqi claims to independence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1656
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