Arab


Definition: Meaning of, Arab in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈarəb /

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Arab Arabs
[countable]
  1. someone whose language is Arabic and whose family comes from, or originally came from the Middle East or North Africa
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Arab used in phrases

  • Arab League (noun)
    1. an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation
  • Arab League, the
    1. an organization of Arab countries in North Africa and southwest Asia, which was formed in 1945
  • Arab Republic of Egypt (noun)
    1. a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC
  • Arab Revolutionary Brigades (noun)
    1. a Palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the PLO in 1974; has conducted terrorist attacks in 20 countries
  • Arab Spring (noun)
    1. the revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests, riots, and civil wars in the Arab world that began end the end of 2010
  • Arab chief (noun)
    1. the leader of an Arab village or family
  • Arab-Berbers (noun)
    1. an ethnic minority descended from Berbers and Arabs and living in northern Africa
  • Arab-Israeli War (noun)
    1. tension between Arabs and Israeli erupted into a brief war in June 1967; Israel emerged as a major power in the Middle East
    2. on Yom Kippur egypt and Syria attacked Israel in October 1973 ; Israel counterattacked and drove the Syrians back and crossed the Suez Canal into Egypt
  • Palestinian Arab (noun)
    1. a descendant of the Arabs who inhabited Palestine
  • Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (noun)
    1. a military dictatorship in northern Africa on the Mediterranean; consists almost entirely of desert; a major exporter of petroleum
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