Araib

Irish

Etymology

From Latin Arabia, from Ancient Greek Ἀραβία (Arabía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈaɾˠəbʲ]

Proper noun

An Araib f (genitive na hAraibe)

1. Arabia (A peninsula of Western Asia between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates)
2. (broader sense) Arabia (The region within or adjacent to the Arabian Plate; Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the Egyptian Sinai, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates)

Declension

Declension of Araib (second declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative Araib vocative a Araib genitive Araibe dative Araib forms with the definite article case singular nominative an Araib genitive na hAraibe dative leis an Araib don Araib

Derived terms

• Arabach (“Arabic, Arabian”, adjective)
• Arabach m (“Arab; Arabian”)
• Araib Shádach f (“Saudi Arabia”)
• Araibis f (“the Arabic language”)
• Cuan na hAraibe m (“the Arabian Gulf”)
• Leithinis na hAraibe f (“the Arabian Peninsula”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of Araib

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
Araib	nAraib	hAraib	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Araib”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “Araib”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025