Arabs

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

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

Arabs

1. plural of Arab

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

From Ancient Greek Ἄραψ (Áraps, “Arab”), from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key):
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key):
• 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.

Arabs m or f (genitive Arabis); third declension

1. an inhabitant of Arabia, an Arab

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

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

1. Arabian

• Ā̆rabia
• ā̆rabicus

• “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.