ARABIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Arabic mean? 

• ARABIC (noun)
  The noun ARABIC has 1 sense:

1. the Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects

  Familiarity information: ARABIC used as a noun is very rare.

• ARABIC (adjective)
  The adjective ARABIC has 1 sense:

1. relating to or characteristic of Arabs

  Familiarity information: ARABIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARABIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Arabic; Arabic language

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

Semitic (a major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family)

Domain member category:

abaya ((Arabic) a loose black robe from head to toe; traditionally worn by Muslim women)

mukataa (an Arabic word for headquarters or administrative center)

bayat (an oath of allegiance to an emir)

Mashriq (Arabic name for the Middle East)

shaheed (Arabic term for holy martyrs)

Derivation:

Arabic (relating to or characteristic of Arabs)

• ARABIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or characteristic of Arabs

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Arabic languages

Pertainym:

Arab (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)

Derivation:

Arabic (the Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects)

 Context examples 

The Persian, Arabic, and Sanskrit languages engaged his attention, and I was easily induced to enter on the same studies.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In this system, the FIGO stage is represented by an Roman numeral, followed by the modified WHO score depicted as an Arabic numeral and separated by a colon (e.g., Stage II:4, Stage IV:9).

(FIGO Staging System and Modified World Health Organization [WHO] Prognostic Scoring System for Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasms, NCI Thesaurus)

The resources of his mind on this occasion were truly astonishing: his conversation was full of imagination; and very often, in imitation of the Persian and Arabic writers, he invented tales of wonderful fancy and passion.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)