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单词 araby
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Arabyn.adj.

Brit. /ˈarəbi/, U.S. /ˈɛrəbi/
Forms: early Middle English Arabisz (plural), Middle English Arraby, Middle English–1500s Arabye, Middle English–1600s Arabie, Middle English– Araby, 1500s Arrabie; also Scottish pre-1700 Araby, pre-1700 Arraby.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French arabie.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman arabie, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French arabi, Middle French arrabi, araby (noun) person of Arab descent (c1100 in Old French as arrabit ), Arab horse (second half of the 12th cent.), (adjective) Arab, Arabian (c1170, originally designating an Arab horse), Arabic (c1300 or earlier) < Arabic ʿarabī (adjective) Arab, Arabian, Arabic < ʿarab Arab n.1 + -i suffix2.Early attestation in surnames. Apparently attested earlier in surnames, as Robert Arrabi (1198), Ralph Araby (1221–2), although it is unclear whether these should be interpreted as reflecting the Anglo-Norman or the Middle English word. Early examples as a place name in English. Araby ( < Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French Arabie (early 12th cent.; < classical Latin Arabia Arabia n.; French Arabie ); compare earlier Arabia : see Arabia n.) occurs as a place name in English from the 14th cent. onwards. Compare the following examples, some of which illustrate the association of the region with perfumes or spices:c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 8194 He an kniȝtes heued of arabie of smot.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 162 As when..North-East windes blow Sabean Odours from the spicie shoare Of Arabie the blest.1792 D. Lloyd Voy. Life iv. 77 Spicy gales from fragrant Araby.1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 28 I, who,..would race With my own steed from Araby.1914 Crisis July 143/2 Surely, no parterre of the East, perfumed with all the odors of Araby, and peopled with houris, was ever so fair as my garden! Origin of French forms with final consonant. The French noun is first attested in forms with final -t or -th (Anglo-Norman arabith , Anglo-Norman and Old French arabit , Old French arrabit , from c1100), of uncertain origin, perhaps resulting from remodelling of the ending after French -ite -ite suffix1; compare post-classical Latin arabita Arab person (11th cent.).
A. n.
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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