What does arabia mean?

Definitions for arabia
əˈreɪ bi əara·bi·a

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Arabian Peninsula, Arabianoun

    a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important for its oil resources

Wiktionary

  1. Arabianoun

    a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; includes Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates.

Wikipedia

  1. arabia

    The Arabian Peninsula, (; Arabic: شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّة, shibhu l-jazīrati l-ʿarabiyyah, "Arabian Peninsula" or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب, jazīratu l-ʿarab, "Island of the Arabs") or Arabia, is a peninsula of Western Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate, and located in the center of the Middle East. At 3,237,500 km2 (1,250,000 sq mi), the Arabian Peninsula is the largest peninsula in the world.Geographically, the Arabian Peninsula includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Yemen, as well as southern Iraq and Jordan. The largest of these is Saudi Arabia. In the classical era, the southern portions of modern-day Syria, Jordan, and the Sinai Peninsula were also considered parts of Arabia (see Arabia Petraea). The Arabian Peninsula formed as a result of the rifting of the Red Sea between 56 and 23 million years ago, and is bordered by the Red Sea to the west and southwest, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman to the northeast, the Levant and Mesopotamia to the north and the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean to the southeast. The peninsula plays a critical geopolitical role in the Arab world and globally due to its vast reserves of oil and natural gas. Before the modern era, the region was divided into primarily four distinct regions: the Central Plateau (Najd and Al-Yamama), South Arabia (Yemen, Hadhramaut and Oman), Al-Bahrain (Eastern Arabia or Al-Hassa), and the Hejaz (Tihamah for the western coast), as described by Ibn al-Faqih.

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  1. arabia

    Arabia, also referred as the Arabian Peninsula, is a region located in Western Asia. It is the largest peninsula in the world and is bordered by the Red Sea to the west, the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman to the south, and the Persian Gulf and the Euphrates River to the east. Countries on the peninsula include Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait. It has a diverse topography consisting of deserts, mountains, valleys and coasts. Arabia is considered the historical and geographical origin of the Arab people and culture, as well as the heartland of Islam.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Arabia

    the most westerly peninsula of Asia and the largest in the world, being one-third the size of the whole of Europe, consisting of (a) a central plateau with pastures for cattle, and fertile valleys; (b) a ring of deserts, the Nefud in the N., stony, the Great Arabian, a perfect Sahara, in the S., sandy, said sometimes to be 600 ft. deep, and the Dahna between; and (c) stretches of coast land, generally fertile on the W. and S.; is divided into eight territories; has no lakes or rivers, only wadies, oftenest dry; the climate being hot and arid, has no forests, and therefore few wild animals; a trading country with no roads or railways, only caravan routes, yet the birthland of a race that threatened at one time to sweep the globe, and of a religion that has been a life-guidance to wide-scattered millions of human beings for over twelve centuries of time.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Arabia

    The great peninsula of southwest Asia comprising most of the present countries of the Middle East. It has been known since the first millennium B.C. In early times it was divided into Arabia Petraea, the northwest part, the only part ever conquered, becoming a Roman province; Arabia Deserta, the northern part between Syria and Mesopotamia; and Arabia Felix, the main part of the peninsula but by some geographers restricted to modern Yemen. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p63)

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. arabia

    A tract of land in Western Asia; the terms Petræa (stony), Felix (happy), and Deserta are said to have been applied to its divisions by Ptolemy, about 140. Arabia was unsuccessfully invaded by Gallus, the Roman governor of Egypt, 24 B.C. In 622, the Arabians under the name of Saracens (which see), followers of Mohammed, their general and prophet, commenced their course of conquest. The Arabs greatly favored literature and the sciences, especially mathematics, astronomy, and chemistry. To them we owe our ordinary (Arabic) numerals and arithmetical notation.

Etymology and Origins

  1. Arabia

    The country of the Arabs, or “men of the desert.”

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. ARABIA

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Arabia is ranked #43732 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Arabia surname appeared 493 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Arabia.

    76.6% or 378 total occurrences were White.
    12.7% or 63 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    6.2% or 31 total occurrences were Asian.
    2.8% or 14 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of arabia in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of arabia in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of arabia in a Sentence

  1. Azeem Ibrahim:

    These countries are coming to the realization that the United States, particularly in United States current form, is not United States, china is significantly much more reliable for the long-term, particularly with the political fallout in countries like Saudi Arabia where the leadership has been ostracized.

  2. Lindsey Graham:

    While I understand that Saudi Arabia is a strategic ally, the behavior of (Saudi Crown Prince) Mohammed bin Salman cannot be ignored, now is not the time to do business as usual with Saudi Arabia.

  3. Pieter Wezeman:

    China has made some more substantial inroads into the Saudi arms market, in particular selling armed drones, the details are shady and we may very well have underestimated China's role as an arms exporter to Saudi Arabia. But China doesn't come anywhere near the USA, United Kingdom or even France as arms suppliers. Still, the important point here is that Saudi Arabia has explored the possibility of diversifying Saudi Arabia supplier base.

  4. Donald Trump:

    Saudi Arabia has been a very important ally of ours in the Middle East.

  5. Michael McCaul:

    I am deeply disturbed that Saudi Arabia has reportedly detained two more American citizens as well as other peaceful activists. This is a grave and provocative act, the Saudi government's detention of American citizens is completely unacceptable and I call for their immediate release.

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