Arabs
English
editPronunciation
editUsage notes
editThe second pronunciation (with a long "a" sound) is derogatory and used only in the sense of a person.
Noun
editArabs
Anagrams
editLatin
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek Ἄραψ (Áraps, “Arab”), from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈa.rabs/, [ˈäräps̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.rabs/, [ˈäːräbs]
- Note: the first vowel is phonemically short and is only found lengthened for the sake of meter in 4-syllabic forms of other related words, after the model of Ī̆talia.
Noun
editArabs m or f (genitive Arabis); third declension
Declension
editThird-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | Arabs | Arabēs Arabes |
genitive | Arabis | Arabum |
dative | Arabī | Arabibus |
accusative | Arabem Araba |
Arabēs Arabas |
ablative | Arabe | Arabibus |
vocative | Arabs | Arabes |
Adjective
editArabs (genitive Arabis); third-declension one-termination adjective
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “Arabs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Arabs”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Arabs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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