arabic

«arabic» in Mova's school dictionary: the language spoken by many millions of people in the… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

proper noun (Arabic — the language); adjective (Arabic — about Arabs, their language or culture); arabic numerals

meaning for a pupil

1) Arabic is the language spoken by many millions of people in the Middle East and North Africa. tree →

2) Arabic describes things connected with the Arabic language, Arabs and their culture, like Arabic writing or Arabic food. tree →

3) Arabic numerals are the usual number signs 0 to 9. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths the digits 0, 1, 2 ... 9 are called Arabic numerals (they came to Europe through Arabic scholars, from older Indian numbers), as opposed to Roman numerals (I, V, X). In geography and languages, Arabic is written from right to left with its own alphabet. In everyday life many families speak Arabic at home.

examples

• Arabic is written from right to left. tree →
• My friend Layla speaks Arabic and English. tree →
• We use Arabic numerals like 7 and 9, not Roman ones like VII. tree →
• The Arabic alphabet has 28 letters. tree →
• Arabic is spoken in Egypt, Morocco and many other countries. tree →
• The mosque has beautiful Arabic writing on the wall. tree →
• Reassured by the nature of their occupation, I advanced towards them and they greeted me in Arabic, asking who I was and whence I came. tree →

note

Usually written with a capital A. Arabic is a language; Arab is a person or people («an Arab»); Arabian is used for some places and things («the Arabian Desert», «Arabian horse»). Not all Muslims speak Arabic.

In the corpora

• The Queen of Sheba visits him in the Bible; Arabic tradition calls her Bilqis, Kipling's Balkis.
• Wesh is a slang hi among French teenagers that came from Arabic; Bien ou quoi ? is slang for "You alright?"
• Many old Greek books survived only because of those Arabic copies, which were later turned into Latin and reached Europe's universities.
• Arabic became the shared language of learning and trade across this huge area.
• The numbers 0 to 9 that we call Arabic numerals were first developed in India and reached Europe through Arabic books.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «arabic» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.