Arabs

• enPR: ârʹəbz, āʹrăbz, IPA^(key): /ˈɛɹ.əbz/, /ˈeɪ.ɹæbz/

The second pronunciation (with a long "a" sound) is derogatory and used only in the sense of a person.

Arabs

1. plural of Arab

• Baars, Baras, Basra, Sabra, abras, arbas, sabar, sabra

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓́ρᾰψ (Ắrăps, “Arab”), borrowed from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.raps]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.rabs]
• Note: the first vowel is phonemically short and is only found lengthened for the sake of meter in 4-syllabic forms of other related words, after the model of Ī̆talia.

Arabs m or f (genitive Arabis); third declension

1. an inhabitant of Arabia, an Arab

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant).

Arabs (genitive Arabis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. Arabian
   • 30 BCE – 16 BCE, Propertius, Elegiae 3.13.8:

     Inda cavīs aurum mittit formīca metallīs,
     et venit ē Rubrō concha Erycīna salō,
     et Tyros ostrīnōs praebet Cadmēa colōrēs,
     cinnamon et multī pistor odōris Arabs.

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   • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martialis, Epigrammata 3.65.5:

     quod myrtus, quod messor Arabs, quod sūcina trita, / pallidus Ēōō tūre quod ignis olet

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Ā̆rabia
• ā̆rabicus

• “Arabs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Arabs”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Arabs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.