Arabs

See also: arabs, àrabs, and arābs

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ârʹəbz, āʹrăbz, IPA^(key): /ˈɛɹ.əbz/, /ˈeɪ.ɹæbz/

Usage notes

The second pronunciation (with a long "a" sound) is derogatory and used only in the sense of a person.

Noun

Arabs

1. plural of Arab

Anagrams

• Baars, Baras, Basra, Sabra, abras, arbas, sabar, sabra

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἄραψ (Áraps, “Arab”), from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.rabs/, [ˈäräps̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.rabs/, [ˈäːräbs]
• Note: the first vowel is phonemically short and is only found lengthened for the sake of meter in 4-syllabic forms of other related words, after the model of Ī̆talia.

Noun

Arabs m or f (genitive Arabis); third declension

1. an inhabitant of Arabia, an Arab

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant).

	singular	plural
nominative	Arabs	Arabēs Arabes
genitive	Arabis	Arabum
dative	Arabī	Arabibus
accusative	Arabem Araba	Arabēs Arabas
ablative	Arabe	Arabibus
vocative	Arabs	Arabes

Adjective

Arabs (genitive Arabis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. Arabian

Related terms

• Ā̆rabia
• ā̆rabicus

Further reading

• “Arabs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Arabs”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Arabs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.