What does arabic mean?

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ˈær ə bɪkara·bic

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Arabic, Arabic languageadjective

    the Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects

  2. Arabicadjective

    relating to or characteristic of Arabs

    "Arabic languages"

Wiktionary

  1. Arabicadjective

    Of, from, or pertaining to Arab countries or cultural behaviour (see also Arab as an adjective).

  2. Arabicnoun

    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.

  3. Arabicnoun

    The Aramaic-derived alphabet used to write the Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu, and Uyghur languages, among others.

Wikipedia

  1. Arabic

    Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, al-ʿarabiyyah [al ʕaraˈbijːa] (listen); عَرَبِيّ, ʿarabīy [ˈʕarabiː] (listen) or [ʕaraˈbij]) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world. Having emerged in the 1st century, it is named after the Arab people; the term "Arab" was initially used to describe those living in the Arabian Peninsula, as perceived by geographers from ancient Greece.Since the 7th century, Arabic has been characterized by diglossia, with an opposition between a standard prestige language—i.e., Literary Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Classical Arabic—and diverse vernacular varieties, which serve as mother tongues. Colloquial dialects vary significantly from MSA, impeding mutual intelligibility. MSA is only acquired through formal education and is not spoken natively. It is the language of literature, official documents, and formal written media. In spoken form, MSA is used in formal contexts, news bulletins and for prayers. This variety is the lingua franca of the Arab world and the liturgical language of Islam. It is an official language of 26 states and 1 disputed territory, the third most after English and French. It is also one of six official languages of the United Nations.Spoken varieties are the usual medium of communication in all other domains. They are not standardized and vary significantly, some of them being mutually unintelligible. The International Organization for Standardization assigns language codes to 33 varieties of Arabic, including MSA. Arabic vernaculars do not descend from MSA or Classical Arabic. Combined, Arabic dialects have 362 million native speakers, while MSA is spoken by 274 million L2 speakers, making it the sixth most spoken language in the world.Arabic is traditionally written with the Arabic alphabet, a right-to-left abjad. This alphabet is the official script for MSA. Colloquial varieties were traditionally not written, however, with the emergence of social media, the amount of written dialects has significantly increased online. Besides the Arabic alphabet, dialects are also often written in Latin from left to right or in Hebrew characters (in Israel) with no standardized orthography. Maltese and Hassaniya are the only varieties officially written in a Latin alphabet.

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  1. arabic

    "Arabic" refers to anything related to Arab culture, people, or the Arab League which is a regional organization of 22 Arab countries in and around North Africa, the Horn of Africa and Arabia. Most commonly, it's used to refer to the Arabic language, a Semitic language that originated in the Arabian Peninsula and is now spoken in various dialects by around 422 million people globally, making it one of the world's most widely spoken languages. The term also pertains to the Arabic script, used for writing in the Arabic language and several other languages like Persian, Pashto, Urdu, and Kurdish. Moreover, Arabic can also refer to artistic, literary, mathematical, scientific contributions and developments within the Arab civilization throughout history.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Arabicadjective

    of or pertaining to Arabia or the Arabians

  2. Arabicnoun

    the language of the Arabians

  3. Etymology: [L. Arabicus, fr. Arabia.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of arabic in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of arabic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of arabic in a Sentence

  1. Ianir Milevski:

    We have no writing during that period so we know little about them, we do not know what language they spoke but we assume it was an early Semitic language, from which Babylonian and Akkadian evolved and later also Hebrew and Arabic.

  2. Yair Lapid:

    I know this, because Yair Lapid said this :' The Arabic tongue and the Hebrew tongue will be equal in their rights and legal validity.' This statement is not a political statement, it's a practical statement.

  3. Charles Moreau:

    It wasn't easy with Arabic and Farsi but it's another ball game with dialects like Tamachek (spoken by the Tuareg tribe in Mali and other parts of Africa).

  4. Abu El Hosna:

    I was speaking to him, I said 'Is this about religion? I am Muslim, we are all Muslim here,' and I was speaking in Arabic so that he would stop, but he didn't stop.

  5. Hala Abdel Malak:

    Arabic is one of the most beautiful languages. There's a lot of depth and poetry and really great expressions. As a language it's a lot more deep and sophisticated than English for example, i think it's our responsibility to be able to counter all of this hatred and fear with knowledge and education and art and design. I think art is the best platform to really bring forth new ideas.

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