arab
//ˈæɹəb//
Forms
- Plural
- arabs
Definitions
1.Of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations.
1.A member of the Semitic ethnic group native to the Arabian Peninsula.
2.A person from the Middle East and North Africa, whose mother tongue is Arabic.
- This backlash also fails to take into account that Israel, for all its faults, is a multicultural society where almost half of graduating doctors today are Arabs or Druze.
3.An Arabian horse.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2619
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab, “Arabs”) or back-formation from Arabic.