Arabize

English

Alternative forms

• Arabise

Etymology

Etymology tree

English Arab

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.

Late Latin -izōder.

Middle French -iserbor.

Middle English -isen

English -ize

English Arabize

From Arab + -ize.

Verb

Arabize (third-person singular simple present Arabizes, present participle Arabizing, simple past and past participle Arabized)

1. (transitive) To make Arab; to give Arab traits to.
   • 1999, Bernard Lewis, "Iran in History", Mortimer and Raymond Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies, page 2:

     Iran was indeed Islamized, but it was not Arabized. Persians remained Persians. And after an interval of silence, Iran reemerged as a separate, different and distinctive element within Islam, eventually adding a new element even to Islam itself.

Synonyms

• Arabicize

Derived terms

• Arabization, Arabisation

Translations

to make Arab

• Arabic: أَعْرَبَ (ʔaʕraba), عَرَّبَ (ar) (ʕarraba)
• Catalan: arabitzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿拉伯化 (Ālābóhuà)

• Danish: arabisere
• Dutch: arabiseren (nl)
• Esperanto: arabigi
• French: arabiser (fr)
• German: arabisieren
• Greek: εξαραβίζω (el) (exaravízo)
• Italian: arabizzare
• Japanese: アラビア化する (Arabia-ka-suru)
• Korean: 아랍화(化)하다 (araphwahada)
• Malay: arabkan
• Portuguese: arabizar
• Romanian: arabiza (ro)
• Russian: арабизи́ровать (ru) (arabizírovatʹ)
• Slovak: arabizovať
• Spanish: arabizar (es)
• Swedish: arabisera (sv)
• Turkish: Araplaştırmak (tr)
• Vietnamese: Ả Rập hóa, Ả Rập hoá