Arab

Meanings

Adjective

• Of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations.

Noun

• A Semitic person, whose forebears were from Arabia
• An inhabitant of Arabia or the Arab world
• A member of an Arabic-speaking community
• An Arabian horse.
• A street Arab.

Related

Similar words

• Ayrab

Origin

• From Arabic عَرَب or عَرَبِيّ. According to folk etymology, the word Arab comes from Ya'rub ibn Qahtan, the first person who spoke Arabic, and the ancestor of all Arabs.