arabian

1. 1.

   relating to or associated with Arabia or its people

   “Arabian Nights”

   “Arabian Sea”
2. 2.

   of or relating to Arabian horses

Other forms of arabian

plural

arabians·

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 arabian

What does arabian mean?

arabian 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 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in arabian?

arabian has 4 syllables: a-ra-bi-an. The stress falls on "ra". In IPA it is /əˈɹeɪbiən/.

What is another word for arabian?

Close synonyms include Arab, Arab. 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 arabian a common word?

arabian is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.