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

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun) 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

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
Araib	nAraib	hAraib	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Araib”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “Araib”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024