Translation
Arabic; Arab
Word origin
From the root arab-, ultimately from Arabic arab, the name the people give themselves, which reached Europe through Latin Arabus and Greek Araps. Arabesque is the same root dressed as a decorative style.
- Origin
- Arabic
- Root
- arab
- English cognates
- Arab, Arabic, arabesque
Examples
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He is learning the Arabic language.
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Arabic coffee is strong and hot.
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She read an Arabic book about the desert.
Esperanto builds nationality words from one root: arabo is an Arab, is Arab or Arabic, o or Arabio the land, and on its own means the Arabic language. Note the gloss covers both English words, since Esperanto does not split people from language the way English does.
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