单词 | araby |
释义 | Arabyn.adj. 1. = Arabian horse n. at Arabian n. and adj. Compounds 1. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Near East, Middle East, and Asia Minor > [noun] > Middle East > Arabia Arabya1225 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by breed > [noun] > Arabian horse Arabya1225 rabitec1330 Arabian horse1588 Arabian1607 Arabc1660 a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 5 He mihte ridan..on riche stede and palefrai and mule and arabisz. c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 2288 Elfaydes and arrabys and olyfauntez noble. 2. An Arab; a person of Arab descent. Usually in plural. Obsolete (archaic and literary in later use). ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of Arabia or Saudi Arabia > [noun] Arabianc1380 Araba1382 Arabya1398 Saudi1933 Saudi Arabian1947 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xiii. xxii. 674 Þe Arabyes [L. Arabes] wone þere. c1425 Prose Versions New Test.: Deeds (Cambr.) (1904) ii. 11 (MED) Þo Iewes..ande þo Arabies [L. Arabes]. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. ccxxxiii. 725 Great puyssaunce of men of warre, of turkes, arabyes, tartaryes. 1587 D. Fenner Def. Godlie Ministers sig. Fiv Why you call vs..scoffing Hammonites, conspiring Arabies. 1613 A. Sherley Relation Trav. Persia 19 The Campe of Aborisci, King of those Arabies, which inhabite the desert of Messopotamia, was a mile off. 1652 Norton's Ordinal of Alchemy Proem, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum 10 The Matters of our Stone; Which the Arabies doon Elixir call. 1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. V. cccxcvi. 101 I am a very Arab of the Arabies, the noblest of those that are beneath the skies. B. adj. Of language: Arabic. In later use also of a person or thing: Arab, Arabian. Now archaic and literary. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [adjective] > Semitic > Arabic Arabic?a1425 Araby?c1425 Arabian1575 Arabican1607 Arabist1854 ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 9 Þe bookes translatede out of Arabye tunge [L. de arabica lingua]. c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lixv/2 Arabye language. 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. Pref. f. vv Many obscure termes..some & fewe beynge Araby wordes. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises v. v. f. 254 At this day there is no tongue (the Arabie tongue excepted) that extendeth further than the Sclauonie tongue. 1834 Scotsman 1 Nov. 3/4 (advt.) Words and Music by the Rev. T. G. Torry Anderson, Author of the Araby Maid, &c. 1858 M. A. Wallace-Dunlop & R. H. M. Wallace-Dunlop Timely Retreat II. 190 He had spent his whole day in searching for an Araby maid—a being he had read about at home, but could find no resemblance to in reality. 1909 Scribner's Mag. June 665/2 Now the Araby name for a flute is a gasba, and..I will in future call Mustapha a maker of the gasba. 1990 T. Potochniak in D. Yashinsky Tales for Unknown City (1992) 147 I will give you my belt of red Araby leather the likes of which you could never buy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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