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Definition of Arabic in English: Arabicnoun ˈarəbɪkˈɛrəbɪk mass nounThe Semitic language of the Arabs, spoken by some 150 million people throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Example sentencesExamples - I can now get along in several languages, even the kind of Arabic spoken in Morocco, where I go quite a lot.
- As in Hebrew, the use of vowels in writing Aramaic and Arabic is a relatively late development.
- For example, the fact that classical Arabic is the language of the Koran endows it with special significance.
- He would have been unable to understand why - he speaks neither Arabic nor English.
- An Arab is someone from the nations of the Middle East and North Africa where Arabic is the primary language.
- Its name in English and in many other languages derives, via Arabic, from an old Persian name, aspankh.
- Someone who only speaks Arabic has left five messages on my answerphone this morning for Yasmina.
- The dialects of spoken Arabic in the Middle East differ a lot as you move from region to region.
- Now he speaks Arabic, understands some grammar and recites and memorizes surahs of Quran.
- Links will also be made to the Bible in Arabic, English, French and Farsi.
- I had by this point learned basic Arabic, which is the language they spoke.
- Software is now being developed to translate to and from Arabic, Korean and Thai.
- For those who speak it, Arabic is an instrument of expression and using it well is an art.
- Jordanians are very friendly and hospitable, and a few words of Arabic will work wonders.
- Often piled in corners, they were written in Arabic, German, Urdu and English.
- Dressed in a white forensic suit, he spoke in Arabic through an interpreter to confirm his name.
- Though he edited the Hebrew prayer book and composed some Hebrew liturgical poems, he wrote mostly in Arabic.
- Later his work would be translated into Arabic after the fall of Alexandria.
- BBC Arabic also broadcasts throughout the Arab world on shortwave and medium wave frequencies.
- The men spoke in Arabic among themselves and to the man in the yellow shirt sitting nearby.
adjective ˈarəbɪkˈɛrəbɪk Relating to the literature or language of Arab people. Example sentencesExamples - The influence of what was produced in that hundred years has left its imprint on Arabic poetry and literature for all times.
- He arrived in the US in 1981 and worked as an Arabic instructor at Tampa University.
- In the Arabic language, a feminine pronoun is generally used in such instances.
- The reports in both the Western and the Arabic press are confused.
- With Shawqi's verses a great era of classical Arabic poetry came to an end.
- To an Arab, her bad Arabic accent, probably would have sounded like an English person trying to sound like an Arab.
- My language is a variant of Gujarati, with many Arabic vocabulary words.
- He spoke about teaching of Arabic language and literature.
- We asked him to look at the original Arabic report and give us his thoughts.
- They conferred in Arabic for the right English words, and also taught me a few Arabic phrases.
- Gibraltar is actually an Arabic word, a corruption of Jebel Tariq - Tariq's mountain.
- The council will focus on the expansion and growth of Arabic language in the state.
- Its program stresses the study of the Arabic language as well as technical skills.
- Her pale forehead creases under the fold of her white scarf; the Arabic exclamations are getting louder.
- Do you wish to speak in the Arabic language first or do you wish to speak in English?
- But Arabic style depends on allusion and implying things much more than Englisn.
- We had our school lessons and they were all in English, except for the Arabic language class that we took.
- A number of prominent Arabic newspapers have published these views with regularity.
- The most striking example is that of Turkey, which scrapped Arabic script and adopted the Latin alphabet.
- In order to achieve that it is imperative for us to teach our children the Arabic language and history and the Islamic faith.
Arabic is written from right to left in a cursive script of twenty-eight consonants, the vowels being indicated by additional signs. The classical or literary language is based largely on that of the Koran; colloquial Arabic has many dialects. The script has been adapted for various languages, including Persian, Urdu, Malay, and (formerly) Turkish Origin Middle English: via Latin arabicus from Greek arabikos, from Araps, Arab- 'Arab', from the Arabic (see Arab). Who put the sugar in your coffee? While much of the Western world was in the Dark Ages, Arabic culture was making enormous contributions to art, philosophy, science, and medicine. From medieval times merchants brought Arabic words to the West along with new goods and materials, including those household staples coffee and sugar. COFFEE derives from Arabic qahwa, although the word entered English in the late 16th century via Turkish kahveh. Muslims had taken wild plants from Ethiopia and cultivated them in Arabia, from where the drink spread throughout the Arabic world and Turkey, becoming particularly popular in the international metropolis of Constantinople. The word sugar has been in English much longer than coffee, coming in the 13th century by way of Old French and Italian from Arabic sukkar. Candy, the North American term for ‘sweets’, is another Arabic word, from qandī ‘candied’, or clarified and crystallised by repeated boiling. Another important commodity was cotton, or in Arabic qutn, known in Britain by the 14th century. More exotic were mohair, which in Arabic was mukayyar, literally ‘choice, select’, and saffron, or za'faran. A sequin was originally a Venetian gold coin whose name came from Arabic sikka, ‘a die for making coins’. Trade often involves customs and tariffs, so it is no surprise that the word tariff itself is from Arabic. In Arabic al- means ‘the’, which is reflected in the spellings of albatross, alcohol, alcove, and algebra, and also in many proper names. Al-Qaeda means literally ‘the base’—a reference to the training camp or base in Afghanistan used by the mujahideen, or guerrillas fighting the Russian occupiers, from which the terrorist group developed. Islam and Muslim are both from the same word, aslama, meaning ‘to submit, surrender’, or ‘to submit to Allah or God’, and both were first recorded in English in the early 17th century. An ayatollah is a Shiite religious leader in Iran. The word has been used since around 1950 in English, and many people only became aware of it when Ayatollah Khomeini (1900–1989) led the Iranian revolution in 1979. A much more established word in English is imam, the leader of prayers in a mosque, known since the 17th century. The word's root is amma ‘to lead the way’. Fatwa was in use in English as early as the 17th century, but it was an obscure and unfamiliar word until 1989, when it suddenly gained new and widespread currency. In this year Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa sentencing the British writer Salman Rushdie (b.1947) to death for publishing The Satanic Verses, a novel regarded by many Muslims as blasphemous. Fatwa is a generic term for any legal decision made by an Islamic religious authority, but, because of the particular way in which the English-speaking world became familiar with it, the term is sometimes wrongly thought to refer to a death sentence. Another word often misunderstood by non-Muslims in the West is jihad. It is generally taken to mean ‘war by Muslims against non-believers’, yet this is only a small part of the word's meaning. In Arabic jihād literally means ‘effort’, and expresses the idea of struggle on behalf of God and Islam, of which war is but one small part. The concept is sometimes divided into lesser jihad, or struggle against unbelievers or oppressors, and greater jihad, a person's spiritual struggle against sin. See also elixir, giraffe, lemon, orange, sofa, zero
Definition of Arabic in US English: Arabicnounˈerəbikˈɛrəbɪk The Semitic language of the Arabs, spoken by some 150 million people throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Example sentencesExamples - For example, the fact that classical Arabic is the language of the Koran endows it with special significance.
- Often piled in corners, they were written in Arabic, German, Urdu and English.
- He would have been unable to understand why - he speaks neither Arabic nor English.
- Its name in English and in many other languages derives, via Arabic, from an old Persian name, aspankh.
- Someone who only speaks Arabic has left five messages on my answerphone this morning for Yasmina.
- Jordanians are very friendly and hospitable, and a few words of Arabic will work wonders.
- Though he edited the Hebrew prayer book and composed some Hebrew liturgical poems, he wrote mostly in Arabic.
- Later his work would be translated into Arabic after the fall of Alexandria.
- For those who speak it, Arabic is an instrument of expression and using it well is an art.
- Dressed in a white forensic suit, he spoke in Arabic through an interpreter to confirm his name.
- Links will also be made to the Bible in Arabic, English, French and Farsi.
- I can now get along in several languages, even the kind of Arabic spoken in Morocco, where I go quite a lot.
- The dialects of spoken Arabic in the Middle East differ a lot as you move from region to region.
- Software is now being developed to translate to and from Arabic, Korean and Thai.
- The men spoke in Arabic among themselves and to the man in the yellow shirt sitting nearby.
- An Arab is someone from the nations of the Middle East and North Africa where Arabic is the primary language.
- Now he speaks Arabic, understands some grammar and recites and memorizes surahs of Quran.
- As in Hebrew, the use of vowels in writing Aramaic and Arabic is a relatively late development.
- BBC Arabic also broadcasts throughout the Arab world on shortwave and medium wave frequencies.
- I had by this point learned basic Arabic, which is the language they spoke.
adjectiveˈerəbikˈɛrəbɪk Relating to the literature or language of Arab people. Arabic is written from right to left in a characteristic cursive script of twenty-eight consonants, the vowels being indicated by additional signs. The script has been adapted for various languages, including Persian, Urdu, Malay, and (formerly) Turkish Example sentencesExamples - But Arabic style depends on allusion and implying things much more than Englisn.
- The most striking example is that of Turkey, which scrapped Arabic script and adopted the Latin alphabet.
- A number of prominent Arabic newspapers have published these views with regularity.
- The influence of what was produced in that hundred years has left its imprint on Arabic poetry and literature for all times.
- Gibraltar is actually an Arabic word, a corruption of Jebel Tariq - Tariq's mountain.
- They conferred in Arabic for the right English words, and also taught me a few Arabic phrases.
- He arrived in the US in 1981 and worked as an Arabic instructor at Tampa University.
- In order to achieve that it is imperative for us to teach our children the Arabic language and history and the Islamic faith.
- Its program stresses the study of the Arabic language as well as technical skills.
- With Shawqi's verses a great era of classical Arabic poetry came to an end.
- He spoke about teaching of Arabic language and literature.
- The reports in both the Western and the Arabic press are confused.
- Her pale forehead creases under the fold of her white scarf; the Arabic exclamations are getting louder.
- In the Arabic language, a feminine pronoun is generally used in such instances.
- Do you wish to speak in the Arabic language first or do you wish to speak in English?
- To an Arab, her bad Arabic accent, probably would have sounded like an English person trying to sound like an Arab.
- We had our school lessons and they were all in English, except for the Arabic language class that we took.
- The council will focus on the expansion and growth of Arabic language in the state.
- My language is a variant of Gujarati, with many Arabic vocabulary words.
- We asked him to look at the original Arabic report and give us his thoughts.
Origin Middle English: via Latin arabicus from Greek arabikos, from Araps, Arab- ‘Arab’, from the Arabic (see Arab). |