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Ar⋅ab
[ar-uh
b] 
–noun
| 1. | a member of a Semitic people inhabiting Arabia and other countries of the Middle East. |
| 2. | a member of any Arabic-speaking people. |
| 3. | Arabian horse. |
| 4. | Sometimes Offensive. a street peddler (esp. in Baltimore). |
| 5. | street Arab. |
Origin:
1625–35; back formation from L Arabs (taken as pl.) < Gk Áraps Arabian, an Arabian or Arab
1625–35; back formation from L Arabs (taken as pl.) < Gk Áraps Arabian, an Arabian or Arab
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| Ar·ab (ār'əb) n.
[French Arabe, from Latin Arabs, from Greek Araps, Arab-, from Arabic 'arab.] Ar'ab adj. |
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Arab
Ar"ab\ (?; 277), n. [Prob. ultimately fr. Heb. arabah a desert, the name employed, in the Old Testament, to denote the valley of the Jordan and Dead Sea. Ar. Arab, Heb. arabi, arbi, arbim: cf. F. Arabe, L. Arabs, Gr. ?.] One of a swarthy race occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc. Street Arab, a homeless vagabond in the streets of a city, particularly and outcast boy or girl. --Tylor. The ragged outcasts and street Arabs who are shivering in damp doorways. --Lond. Sat. Rev.
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Language Translation for : Arab
Spanish:
arábigo,
German:
arabisch,
Japanese:
アラビア数字
Arab (n.)
c.1391 (Arabiens), from O.Fr. Arabe, from L. Arabs (acc. Arabem), from Gk. Araps (gen. Arabos), from Ar. 'arab, indigenous name of the people, perhaps lit. "inhabitant of the desert" (rel. to Heb. arabha "desert"). As a prized type of horse, it is attested from 1666. Meaning "homeless little wanderer, child of the street" is from 1848, in ref. to nomadic ways. Arab League formed in Cairo, March 22, 1945. Arabic numerals (actually Indian) first attested 1727; they were introduced in Europe by Gerbert of Aurillac (later Pope Sylvester II) after a visit to Islamic Spain in 967-970. A prominent man of science, he taught in the diocesan school at Reims, but the numbers made little headway against fierce conservative opposition in the Church until after the Crusades. The earliest depiction of them in Eng., in "The Crafte of Nombrynge" (c.1350) correctly identifies them as "teen figurys of Inde."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Arab
ambush, a city in the mountains of Judah (Josh. 15:52), now Er-Rabiyeh.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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