A·ra·bi·an

(ə-rā′bē-ən)

adj.

Of or concerning Arabia or the Arabs; Arab.

1. A native or inhabitant of Arabia.

2. An Arabian horse.

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Arabian

(əˈreɪbɪən)

adj

1. (Placename) of or relating to Arabia or the Arabs

2. (Peoples) of or relating to Arabia or the Arabs

(Peoples) another word for Arab

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A•ra•bi•an

(əˈreɪ bi ən)

adj.

1. of or pertaining to Arabia or its inhabitants.

2. a native or inhabitant of Arabia.

3. Arabian horse.

[1350–1400]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	Arabian - 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 Arab Arabia, Arabian Peninsula - a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important for its oil resources Semite - a member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa Bahraini, Bahreini - a native or inhabitant of Bahrain Palestinian, Palestinian Arab - a descendant of the Arabs who inhabited Palestine Omani - a native or inhabitant of Oman Katari, Qatari - a native or inhabitant of Qatar Saudi, Saudi Arabian - a native or inhabitant of Saudi Arabia Yemeni - a native or inhabitant of Yemen Bedouin, Beduin - a member of a nomadic tribe of Arabs Saracen - (when used broadly) any Arab
	2.	Arabian - a spirited graceful and intelligent riding horse native to Arabia Arab mount, riding horse, saddle horse - a lightweight horse kept for riding only
Adj.	1.	Arabian - relating to or associated with Arabia or its people; "Arabian Nights"; "Arabian Sea"
	2.	Arabian - of or relating to Arabian horses

Translations

arabisch

árabe arábigo

arabe arabique

ArabijacarabijskiArabljaninArabljanka

arabo

аравиец

Arabian

[əˈreɪbɪən]

A. ADJ → árabe, arábigo
the Arabian Desert → el desierto Arábigo
the Arabian Gulf → el golfo Arábigo
the Arabian Sea → el mar de Omán
The Arabian Nights → Las mil y una noches

B. N → árabe mf

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Arabian

[əˈreɪbiən] adj → arabe

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

Arabian

adj → arabisch; tales of the Arabian Nights → Märchen aus Tausendundeiner Nacht

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

Arabian

[əˈreɪbɪən] adj → arabo/a, arabico/a

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She appeared affected by different feelings; wiping a few tears from her lovely eyes, she held out her hand to Felix, who kissed it rapturously and called her, as well as I could distinguish, his sweet Arabian. She did not appear to understand him, but smiled.

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We passed along the Arabian coast of Mahrah and Hadramaut, for a distance of six miles, its undulating line of mountains being occasionally relieved by some ancient ruin.

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Was it one of those wonderful talking fishes out of the Arabian Nights, or are you merely an angler yourself, and did you begrudge such a record catch to a girl?"

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If this is not a dream, I have woke up, by mistake, in an Arabian Night, instead of a London one.

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"Why, really," said the physician, with an amusing consciousness of his own resemblance to the loquacious barber of the Arabian Nights, "this is very interesting.

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Having provided everything necessary for our journey, such as Arabian habits, and red caps, calicoes, and other trifles to make presents of to the inhabitants, and taking leave of our friends, as men going to a speedy death, for we were not insensible of the dangers we were likely to encounter, amongst horrid deserts, impassable mountains, and barbarous nations, we left Goa on the 26th day of January in the year 1624, in a Portuguese galliot that was ordered to set us ashore at Pate, where we landed without any disaster in eleven days, together with a young Abyssin, whom we made use of as our interpreter.

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He then endeavored to re-enter the marvellous grottos, but they had suddenly receded, and now the path became a labyrinth, and then the entrance vanished, and in vain did he tax his memory for the magic and mysterious word which opened the splendid caverns of Ali Baba to the Arabian fisherman.

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I'm perfectly sick of the humdrum life I have been leading the last week, and you do sort of take one back to the Arabian Nights, you know, Reggie.

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She had a vivid imagination; she had, besides, read the Arabian Nights and Guthrie's Geography; and it is a fact that while she was dressing for dinner, and after she had asked Amelia whether her brother was very rich, she had built for herself a most magnificent castle in the air, of which she was mistress, with a husband somewhere in the background (she had not seen him as yet, and his figure would not therefore be very distinct); she had arrayed herself in an infinity of shawls, turbans, and diamond necklaces, and had mounted upon an elephant to the sound of the march in Bluebeard, in order to pay a visit of ceremony to the Grand Mogul.

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The first disaster that befell us was in the Gulf of Persia, where five of our men, venturing on shore on the Arabian side of the gulf, were surrounded by the Arabians, and either all killed or carried away into slavery; the rest of the boat's crew were not able to rescue them, and had but just time to get off their boat.

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He had brought a new copy of The Arabian Nights for Rebecca, wishing to replace the well-worn old one that had been the delight of her girlhood; but meeting her at such an inauspicious time, he had absently carried it away with him.

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As he approached, he heard the noise of the pulleys which grated under the weight of the massy pails; he also fancied he heard the melancholy moaning of the water which falls back again into the wells -- a sad, funereal, solemn sound, which strikes the ear of the child and the poet -- both dreamers -- which the English call splash; Arabian poets, gasgachau; and which we Frenchmen, who would be poets, can only translate by a paraphrase -- the noise of water falling into water.

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