Lexic.us

Definition of Arabian

1. Noun. A member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa.

2. Adjective. Relating to or associated with Arabia or its people. "Arabian Sea"

3. Noun. A spirited graceful and intelligent riding horse native to Arabia.

4. Adjective. Of or relating to Arabian horses.

Definition of Arabian

1. a. Of or pertaining to Arabia or its inhabitants.

2. n. A native of Arabia; an Arab.

Definition of Arabian

1. Adjective. Related to Arabia. ¹

2. Noun. A native of Arabia. ¹

3. Noun. An Arabian horse. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arabian

Arab Arab-Berber Arab-Israeli War Arab League Arab Republic of Egypt Arab Revolutionary Brigades Arab Spring Arab World Arab chief Arab street

Arabela Arabella Arabetic Arabia Arabian (current term) Arabian Desert Arabian Gulf Arabian Nights Arabian Nights' Entertainment Arabian Peninsula

Arabian Sea Arabian camel Arabian coffee Arabian jasmine Arabian oryx Arabian oryxes Arabian tea Arabianness

Literary usage of Arabian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Book Prices Current (1917)
"Arabian Nights. With Tales from the Arabic: Alaeddin; Persian Letters; and Tartarian ... Arabian Nights. Translated by RP Burton. Edited by LC Smithers. ..."

2. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire by Edward Gibbon (1862)
"The two Syrian journeys are expressed by almost all the Arabian writers, both Mahometans and Christians (Gagnier, ..."

3. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"Arabian PHILOSOPHY amined and expurgated. These prescriptions, however, do not seem to have had more than a passing effect ; the books were read, ..."

4. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1916)
"THE " Arabian NIGHTS " AND THE ENGLISH NOVEL. (To the Editor of THE DIAL.) The magic of Oriental story has lent charms to poets of English, from the age of ..."

5. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society by Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) (1892)
"TnE STORMS OF THE Arabian SEA. The conclusions which he has arrived at ... That cyclones originating over the Arabian Sea are formed on the northern limits ..."

6. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1888)
"Avicenna, the great Arabian philosopher, says that he began study by reading the Metaphysics of Aristotle forty times without understanding them. ..."

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