Arab vs Arabic

Arab

noun
  • An inhabitant of Arabia or the Arab world 

  • A member of an Arabic-speaking community 

  • An Arabian horse. 

  • A Semitic person, whose forebears were from Arabia 

adj
  • Of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations. 

Arabic

noun
  • An Arab 

  • A variety of the Arabic language. 

name
  • A major Semitic language originating from the Arabian peninsula, and now spoken natively (in various spoken dialects, all sharing a single highly conservative standardized literary form) throughout large sections of the Middle East and North Africa. 

  • The Aramaic-derived alphabet used to write the Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu, and Uyghur languages, among others. 

adj
  • Related to the Arabic language. 

  • Of, from, or pertaining to Arab countries or cultural behaviour (see also Arab as an adjective). 

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