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عَرَبِيّ
Arab, Arabic /ʕa.raˈbiː/
adjectiveB2#3723 most common
Also: of the Arabs, in the Arabic language
Example sentences
هُوَ رَجُلٌ عَرَبِيٌّ.
He is an Arab man.
أَتَكَلَّمُ اللُّغَةَ العَرَبِيَّةَ قَلِيلًا.
I speak Arabic a little.
يُحِبُّ صَدِيقِي الأَكْلَ العَرَبِيَّ كَثِيرًا.
My friend likes Arabic food a lot.
تَخْتَلِفُ اللَّهَجَاتُ العَرَبِيَّةُ اخْتِلَافًا كَبِيرًا مِنْ بَلَدٍ إِلَى آخَرَ.
Arabic dialects differ greatly from one country to another.
يُعَدُّ الخَطُّ العَرَبِيُّ أَحَدَ أَبْرَزِ أَشْكَالِ الفَنِّ الإِسْلَامِيِّ.
Arabic calligraphy is considered one of the most prominent forms of Islamic art.
تَتَجَلَّى وَحْدَةُ الهُوِيَّةِ العَرَبِيَّةِ فِي تَنَوُّعِ لَهْجَاتِهَا وَتَعَدُّدِ ثَقَافَاتِهَا مَعَ اشْتِرَاكِهَا فِي إِرْثٍ لُغَوِيٍّ وَاحِدٍ.
The unity of Arab identity shows itself in the diversity of its dialects and the multiplicity of its cultures, alongside a shared linguistic heritage.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | عَرَبِيٌّ | عَرَبِيُّونَ |
| Genitive | عَرَبِيٍّ | عَرَبِيِّينَ |
| Accusative | عَرَبِيًّا | عَرَبِيِّينَ |
| Vocative | يَا عَرَبِيُّ | يَا عَرَبِيُّونَ |
Word family
عَرَبArabs (the people, collective)
العَرَبِيَّةthe Arabic language (feminine form used on its own)
أَعْرَابِيّBedouin, desert dweller
تَعْرِيبArabization, translation into Arabic
عَرَّبَto Arabize, to render into Arabic
Etymology
The word is built from the triliteral Semitic root ع-ر-ب (ʿ-r-b), which underlies عَرَب (ʿarab), the collective noun for Arabs. Adding the nisba suffix ـِيّ (-iyy), which turns a noun into a relative adjective meaning 'belonging to' or 'of', gives عَرَبِيّ, 'Arab, Arabic'. The root itself is old and pre-Islamic, appearing in Akkadian and other ancient Near Eastern texts to describe desert-dwelling peoples of the Arabian peninsula.
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