عرب

Arabic

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /ʕar.ra.ba/
• (noun) IPA^(key): /ʕa.rab/

Verb

عَرَّبَ • (ʕarraba) II, non-past يُعَرِّبُ‎ (yuʕarribu)

1. to translate into Arabic
2. to Arabicize, Arabize; to give an Arabic form
3. to express, to state clearly, to declare
4. (obsolete) to upbraid, to disapprove of, to declare foul
5. (obsolete) to lop, to prune, to scarify and cauterize or otherwise trim at the surface

Conjugation

Noun

Arabic Wikipedia has an article on:

عرب

Wikipedia ^ar

عَرَب • (ʕarab) f or m pl (collective, singulative عَرَبِيّ m (ʕarabiyy), plural عُرُوب (ʕurūb) or أَعْرُب (ʔaʕrub) or عُرْبَان (ʕurbān) or عُرُب (ʕurub), paucal عَرَب (ʕarab))

1. Arabs, true Arabs

Usage notes

According to Lane's Arabic Lexicon (entry عرب, book I, p. 2045), عَرَب (ʕarab) is of the feminine gender. However, since the word is a collective noun with human referents, it is possible for it to be treated as either a masculine plural or a feminine singular noun. For example, the Wikipedia entry has الْعَرَب الْبَاقِيَة الَّذِين (al-ʕarab al-bāqiya allaḏīn ..., “the remaining Arabs who ...”) with بَاقِيَة (bāqiya, “remaining”), a feminine singular, but الَّذِين (allaḏīn, “who”), a masculine plural. Semantically, such nouns often refer to races and ethnic groups. For similar collective nouns, see عَجَم (ʕajam, “Non-Arabs”), كُرْج (kurj, “Georgians”), فُرْس (furs, “Persians”), تُرْك (turk, “Turks”), كُرْد (kurd, “Kurds”), رُوم (rūm, “Romans”), and رُوس (rūs, “Rus Vikings”).

Declension

Antonyms

• عَجَم (ʕajam)

Descendants

• → Ancient Greek: Ἄραψ (Áraps)
  • → Latin: Arabs
• → Northern Kurdish: ereb

Adjective

عَرَب • (ʕarab) m pl

1. masculine plural of عَرَبِيّ (ʕarabiyy)

Etymology 2

Denominal verb of عَرْبُون (ʕarbūn).

Verb

عَرَّبَ • (ʕarraba) II, non-past يُعَرِّبُ‎ (yuʕarribu)

1. to give earnest money

Conjugation

Etymology 3

Denominal verb of عَرُوب (ʕarūb).

Verb

عَرَّبَ • (ʕarraba) II, non-past يُعَرِّبُ‎ (yuʕarribu)

1. (obsolete) to express sexual desire towards, to attempt to render desirous of copulation, to be obscene towards

Conjugation

Etymology 4

Adjective

عُرُب • (ʕurub) f pl

1. plural of عَرُوب (ʕarūb)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab).

Noun

عرب • (Arap)

1. the Arabian people or Arabia
2. Arab
3. Negro

   Synonym: زنجی (zenci)

Related terms

• عربی (Arabî)

Descendants

• Turkish: Arap
• → Albanian: arap
• → Aromanian: arap, arapu
• → Bulgarian: ара́п (aráp)
• → Greek: αράπης (arápis)
• → Laz: არაბი (arabi), არაპი (arap̌i); ააბი (aabi)
• → Romanian: arap
• → Gagauz: arap
• → Old East Slavic: арапъ (arapŭ) (?)
  • Russian: ара́п (aráp)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Àrap, Àrapin

  А̀рап, А̀рапин

References

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “عرب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3240
• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “87. ARÁPU”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 79

Persian

Persian Wikipedia has an article on:

عرب

Wikipedia ^fa

Noun

عرب • ('arab) (plural عرب‌ها ('arab-hâ))

1. Arab
2. Arabian

Adjective

عرب • ('arab)

1. Arab
2. Arabian

Synonyms

• تازی (tâzi)

Derived terms

• عربی ('arabi)
• عربستان ('arabestân)
• عربستان سعودی ('arabestân-e sa'wdi)

Sindhi

Noun

عرب • ('arbu)

1. Arab

Adjective

عرب • ('arbu)

1. Arab

Related terms

• عربي ('arabi)
• عربستان ('arabestân)
• سعودي عرب ('saudi arab)

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology 1

From Arabic عَرَّب (ʕarrab).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʕar.rab/,

• Audio (al-Lidd)

  (file)

Verb

عرّب • (ʕarrab) II (present بعرّب (biʕarreb))

1. to sort, to classify, to organize

Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʕa.rab/,

• Audio (Ramallah)

  (file)

Noun

عرب • (ʕarab) pl

1. plural of عربي (ʕarabi, “Arab”)

Adjective

عرب • (ʕarab)

1. plural of عربي (ʕarabi, “Arabic”)

Urdu

Noun

عرب • (arab) m

1. Arab
2. Arabian

Adjective

عرب • (arab)

1. Arab
2. Arabian

Related terms

• عربی (arabī, “Arabic”)
• عربستان (arabistān, “Arabia”)
• سعودی عرب (saudī-arab, “Saudi Arabia”)