arabizar

From árabe +‎ -izar.

• Hyphenation: a‧ra‧bi‧zar

arabizar (first-person singular present arabizo, first-person singular preterite arabizei, past participle arabizado)

1. (transitive) to Arabize (make Arab)

From árabe +‎ -izar.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /aɾabiˈθaɾ/ [a.ɾa.β̞iˈθaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /aɾabiˈsaɾ/ [a.ɾa.β̞iˈsaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧ra‧bi‧zar

arabizar (first-person singular present arabizo, first-person singular preterite arabicé, past participle arabizado)

1. (transitive) to Arabize
   • 2015 July 22, “La importancia de (no) llamarse Omar”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Muchos kurdos, turcomanos, yazidíes, shabaks y kakais eran animados a arabizar sus nombres para evitar ser discriminados en los trámites administrativos o en el trabajo.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “arabizar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28