arab

Other forms of arab

plural

arabs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about arab

What does arab mean?

arab means "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". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in arab?

arab has 2 syllables: ar-ab. The stress falls on "ar". In IPA it is /ˈæɹəb/.

What is another word for arab?

Close synonyms include Arabian, Arabian. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is arab a common word?

arab is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.