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arab
/ˈæɹəb/
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What does arab mean?
adjective
- Of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations.
noun
- A member of the Semitic ethnic group native to the Arabian Peninsula.
- A person from the Middle East and North Africa, whose mother tongue is Arabic.
More meanings (5)
noun
- An Arabian horse.
- (rare) billion (sense 1); 1,000,000,000; or with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,00,00,000.
- (archaic) A street Arab.
proper noun
- A city in Marshall County, Alabama, United States.
- (dated, rare) The Arabic language.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈæɹəb/
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See this word in context.
Following a brief conversation, the aged Arab--for such he appeared to be--drew aside a strip of matting, revealing a dark recess.
In addition, a dramatic increase in worker remittances, increased Arab donor aid, and generous debt rescheduling agreements helped ease foreign payments pressures.
More book examples (3)
The very first baker of bread that ever lived must have done his work exactly as the Arab does at this day.
So he and Speke set out on a cruise northward in a crazy old Arab "beden" with ragged sails and worm-eaten timbers.
The good services of these machines so pleased the Pasha that he requested us to receive three selected Arab men into our works.