arabic

Related to the Arabic language.

an Arabic translation

nuances of Arabic inflection

Expressed in a script that was developed in Arab lands (but is not always used in the Arabic language): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.

Arabic numerals

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

White chalk on the fascia board above the Arabic-food stall reads "Lebanon" and "Lebs rule".

Arab.

I saw that in my workplace black co-workers had to unite with Arabic and white workers just to be able to win better wages and working conditions and certainly to be able to win a strike.

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 Nort

Egyptian Arabic

Eastern Arabic

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

Near-synonym: Arabic alphabet

A variety of the Arabic language.

He was speaking an Arabic that they'd never heard before and could barely understand.

An Arab.

That's the majority of working N'Yawkers. Blacks and Hispanics outnumber the arabics.

Classic Arabic didn't "turn into" the various Arabic vernaculars. There is disagreement over whether the range of spoken Arabics all have a single ancestor (seems unlikely), but Classical Arabic is a somewhat artificial creation based on at least two dialects.

Ellipsis of Arabic numeral.

A novel writer will usually spell out Arabics from one to nine, to accord with the tone of the genre.