عربستان

Chagatai

Etymology

From عَرَب ('arab, “Arab”) +‎ ـِستان (-estân).

Proper noun

عربستان (ʿarabistān)

1. the Arabian Peninsula; Arabia (A peninsula of Western Asia between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates)
2. (broader sense) Arabia (The region within or adjacent to the Arabian Plate; Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the Egyptian Sinai, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates)

Descendants

• Uyghur: ئەرەبىستان (erebistan)
• Uzbek: Arabiston

Persian

Etymology

From عَرَب ('arab, “Arab”) +‎ ـِستان (-estân).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔa.ɾa.βis.ˈtɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.ɾä.bɪs.t̪ʰɑ́ːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.ɾä.bɪs.t̪ʰɑ́ːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔä.ɾä.bɪs.t̪ʰɑ́ːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔä.ɾä.bis.t̪ʰɔ́ːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæ.ɹæ.bes.t̪ʰɒ́ːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.ɾä.bis.t̪ʰɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading?	araḇistān
Dari reading?	arabistān
Iranian reading?	arabestân
Tajik reading?	arabiston

Noun

Dari	عربستان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	Арабистон

عَرَبِسْتان • ('arabestân)

1. the Arabian Peninsula; Arabia (A peninsula of Western Asia between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates)
2. (broader sense) Arabia (The region within or adjacent to the Arabian Plate; Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the Egyptian Sinai, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates)

   Synonym: شِبْهِ جَزیرِهٔ عَرَبِسْتان (šebh-e jazire-ye 'arabestân)

3. Saudi Arabia (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)

   Synonym: عَرَبِسْتانِ سَعودی ('arabestân-e sa'udi)

4. (historical) Arabistan (a historical region of southwestern Iran)

Usage notes

• In modern contexts, the word usually refers to Saudi Arabia.

See also

• عربستان سعودی on the Persian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fa
• شبه جزیره عربستان on the Persian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fa

Urdu

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)ə.ɾə.bɪs.t̪ɑːn/

Noun

عَرَبِسْتان • ('arabistān) m (Hindi spelling अरबिस्तान)

1. the Arabian Peninsula; Arabia (A peninsula of Western Asia between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates)
2. (broader sense) Arabia (The region within or adjacent to the Arabian Plate; Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the Egyptian Sinai, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates)

   Synonyms: جزیرہ نمائے عرب (jazīra numā-e 'arab), جزیرہ نما عرب (jazīra numā 'arab)

Related terms

• عَرَب ('arab, “Arab”)