ARAB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Arab mean? 

• ARAB (noun)
  The noun ARAB has 2 senses:

1. a member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa

2. a spirited graceful and intelligent riding horse native to Arabia

  Familiarity information: ARAB used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARAB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Arab; Arabian

Hypernyms ("Arab" is a kind of...):

Semite (a member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Arab"):

Bahraini; Bahreini (a native or inhabitant of Bahrain)

Palestinian; Palestinian Arab (a descendant of the Arabs who inhabited Palestine)

Omani (a native or inhabitant of Oman)

Katari; Qatari (a native or inhabitant of Qatar)

Saudi; Saudi Arabian (a native or inhabitant of Saudi Arabia)

Yemeni (a native or inhabitant of Yemen)

Bedouin; Beduin (a member of a nomadic tribe of Arabs)

Saracen ((when used broadly) any Arab)

Holonyms ("Arab" is a member of...):

Arabia; Arabian Peninsula (a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important for its oil resources)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A spirited graceful and intelligent riding horse native to Arabia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Arab; Arabian

Hypernyms ("Arab" is a kind of...):

mount; riding horse; saddle horse (a lightweight horse kept for riding only)

 Context examples 

A country in the Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Oman, and Persian Gulf, between Yemen and the United Arab Emirates.

(Oman, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

"I was about to say a street-arab," she concluded severely.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“He’s in all right, Mr. Holmes,” cried a small street Arab, running up to us.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Safie related that her mother was a Christian Arab, seized and made a slave by the Turks; recommended by her beauty, she had won the heart of the father of Safie, who married her.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In practice, the term mainly refers to people originated from forty-eight sub-Saharan Africa nations; and excudes individuals from North Africa countries, e.g. such as Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia with Arab and Berber ethnicity.

(African, NCI Thesaurus)