Arabs

See also: arabs, àrabs, and arābs

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ârʹəbz, āʹrăbz, IPA^(key): /ˈɛɹ.əbz/, /ˈeɪ.ɹæbz/

Usage notes

The second pronunciation (with a long "a" sound) is derogatory and used only in the sense of a person.

Noun

Arabs

1. plural of Arab

Anagrams

• Baars, Baras, Basra, Sabra, abras, arbas, sabar, sabra

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab)bor.

Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓́ρᾰψ (Ắrăps)bor.

Latin Arabs

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓́ρᾰψ (Ắrăps, “Arab”), borrowed from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.raps]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.rabs]
• Note: the first vowel is phonemically short and is only found lengthened for the sake of meter in 4-syllabic forms of other related words, after the model of Ī̆talia.

Noun

Arabs m or f (genitive Arabis); third declension

1. an inhabitant of Arabia, an Arab

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant).

	singular	plural
nominative	Arabs	Arabēs Arabes
genitive	Arabis	Arabum
dative	Arabī	Arabibus
accusative	Arabem Araba	Arabēs Arabas
ablative	Arabe	Arabibus
vocative	Arabs	Arabes

Adjective

Arabs (genitive Arabis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. Arabian
   • 30 BCE – 16 BCE, Propertius, Elegiae 3.13.8:

     Inda cavīs aurum mittit formīca metallīs,
     et venit ē Rubrō concha Erycīna salō,
     et Tyros ostrīnōs praebet Cadmēa colōrēs,
     cinnamon et multī pistor odōris Arabs.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martialis, Epigrammata 3.65.5:

     quod myrtus, quod messor Arabs, quod sūcina trita, / pallidus Ēōō tūre quod ignis olet

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Related terms

• Ā̆rabia
• ā̆rabicus

Further reading

• “Arabs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Arabs”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Arabs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.