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Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab)bor.

Ancient Greek Ἄρᾰψ (Árăps)

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)

Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)

Ancient Greek Ἀραβικός (Arabikós)bor.

Latin arabicusbor.

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From Latin Category:English terms borrowed from Latin#ARABIC Category:English terms derived from Latin#ARABIC arabicus, from Ancient Greek Category:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#ARABIC Ἀραβικός (Arabikós), from Ἄραψ (Áraps, “Arab”) [from Arabic Category:English terms derived from Arabic#ARABIC عَرَب (ʕarab)] +‎ -ικός (-ikós, adjective suffix). By surface analysis, Arab +‎ -icCategory:English terms suffixed with -ic#ARABIC.

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Related to the Arabic language.
an Arabic translationCategory:English terms with collocations#ARABIC; nuances of Arabic inflectionCategory:English terms with collocations#ARABIC
- 2008, Abdallah Nacereddine, To Be Oneself: The Tragicomedy of an Unfinished Life History, →ISBN, page 342:
  One day my UN students asked me, "Which is the Arabic country where the best Arabic is spoken?" I quickly replied, "Bosnia." They exclaimed, "But Bosnia is not an Arab country!"
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(of numerals) Expressed in a script that was developed in Arab lands (but is not always used in the Arabic language): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
Alternative form: arabicCategory:English links with manual fragments#ARABIC

Coordinate terms: RomanCategory:English links with manual fragments#ARABIC, romanCategory:English links with manual fragments#ARABIC

Arabic numeralsCategory:English terms with collocations#ARABIC
Of, from, or pertaining to Arab countries or cultural behaviour (see also Arab as an adjective).
- 2012, Deborah Youdell, “Intelligibility, agency and the raced–nationed–religioned subjects of education”, in Intersectionality and "Race" in Education, →ISBN, page 202:
  White chalk on the fascia board above the Arabic-food stall reads "Lebanon" and "Lebs rule".
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(proscribed Category:English proscribed terms#ARABIC, of people) Arab.
- 1987 February 22, Dallas Williams, “Black, Gay and Red”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 31, page 5:
  I saw that in my workplace black co-workers had to unite with Arabic and white workers just to be able to win better wages and working conditions and certainly to be able to win a strike.
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The adjective Arabic is commonly used in reference to language, and in traditional phrases such as Arabic numeral or gum arabic. Its use is controversial and often deprecated in reference to people or countries, where the adjective Arab is preferred.

of, from, or pertaining to Arab countries or cultural behaviour

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A major Semitic language originating from the Arabian peninsula, and now spoken natively (in various spoken dialects, all sharing a single highly conservative standardized literary form) throughout large sections of the Middle East and North Africa.
- 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VII. Orestea. II: The Libation-Bearers”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, pages 180-181:
  ‘Kinsman’ and ‘avenger’ meet in the same word in Hebrew and in Arabic; nor did Greek tribal custom keep them separate.
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Egyptian ArabicCategory:English terms with collocations#ARABIC; Eastern ArabicCategory:English terms with collocations#ARABIC; translated from the ArabicCategory:English terms with collocations#ARABIC
- 2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 22 March 2022:
  Classical Arabic – the language of the Qur’an – will make you understood everywhere, but colloquial Arabic may be more useful, because once the locals start conversing with each other, you’ll lose the plot.
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- 2023, Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost, Jonathan Cape, page 74:
  We’d gone to Arabic school as children and taken lessons in the summer holidays, and I still read the news in Arabic, but it wasn’t like I practised reciting the written language any more, with its complex rhythms and grammatical structures.
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The Aramaic-derived script used to write the Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu, and Uyghur languages, among others.
Synonym: Arabic script

Near-synonym: Arabic alphabet

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A variety of the Arabic language.
He was speaking an Arabic that they'd never heard before and could barely understand.Category:English terms with usage examples#ARABIC
(proscribed Category:English proscribed terms#ARABIC) An Arab.
- 2000 July 20, Topprolmc, “OT - I participated in an obscene act today!”, in rec.motorcycles.harley‎ (Usenet):
  That's the majority of working N'Yawkers. Blacks and Hispanics outnumber the arabics.
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- 2004 April 22, Peter T. Daniels, “Taiwanese and their language”, in soc.culture.china‎ (Usenet):
  Classic Arabic didn't "turn into" the various Arabic vernaculars. There is disagreement over whether the range of spoken Arabics all have a single ancestor (seems unlikely), but Classical Arabic is a somewhat artificial creation based on at least two dialects.
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Ellipsis of Arabic numeralCategory:English ellipses#ARABIC.
Alternative form: arabicCategory:English links with manual fragments#ARABIC

A novel writer will usually spell out Arabics from one to nine, to accord with the tone of the genre.Category:English terms with usage examples#ARABIC

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