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Old French
Adjective
arabik m (oblique and nominative feminine singular arabike)
- Arabic; Arab
Old Polish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἀραβία (Arabía) + -ik. First attested in 1472.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /arabik/
- IPA(key): (15th CE) /arabik/
Noun
arabik m animacy unattested
- type of stone similar to ivory
1900 [1472], Józef Rostafiński, editor, Symbola ad historiam naturalem medii aevi = Średniowieczna historya naturalna w Polsce. Ps 2, number 1853:Arabyk arabicus- [Arabik arabicus]
References
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “arabik”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN