arabian

Everyday

1. To do with Arabia, the large peninsula in south-west Asia, or its people. tree →
2. An Arabian horse: a fast, graceful breed of horse. tree →

In the lessons

Met in geography (the Arabian Peninsula, the Arabian Sea) and in stories (The Arabian Nights, Aladdin). Phrases: Arabian Peninsula, Arabian Sea, Arabian horse, Arabian Nights.

Examples

• The Arabian Peninsula is mostly desert. tree →
• She rode a beautiful Arabian horse. tree →
• The Arabian Sea is part of the Indian Ocean. tree →
• "Aladdin" is one of the tales in The Arabian Nights. tree →
• Camels live in the Arabian desert. tree →
• Arabian horses have a dished face and high tail. tree →
• It also crept into the voyages of Sindbad in the Arabian Nights. tree →

Note

Always with a capital A. Arabian is used for the land and horses; Arab for people; Arabic for the language and numerals (1, 2, 3 are "Arabic numerals").

In Jewish tradition

Met in geography (the Arabian Peninsula, the Arabian Sea) and in stories (The Arabian Nights, Aladdin). Phrases: Arabian Peninsula, Arabian Sea, Arabian horse, Arabian Nights.

Examples

• From this sym- bol originated the numeral 0 (.ji in the East-Arabian notation. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
• "') As an early Arabian mathematiciaa Mohammed ben Musa Alkhowa- rezini said that the lodians practiced the so-called Arabian system of notation (M. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
• Indeed, the numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 were originally indicated by such a series of strokes, as is well known to all familiar with the old Roman, Greek, and South-Arabian systems of notation. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
• By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy harlotries and with thy wickedness. (Prophets JER.3.2, JPS 1917) tree →
• It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. (Prophets ISA.13.20, JPS 1917) tree →
• But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said: 'What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?' (Writings NEH.2.19, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

Always with a capital A. Arabian is used for the land and horses; Arab for people; Arabic for the language and numerals (1, 2, 3 are "Arabic numerals").