ع ر ب

See also: ع ز ب‎, عرب‎, عزت‎, غرت‎, غرب‎, عزب‎, and غژب‎

Contents

Arabic

Root

ع ر ب • (ʿ-r-b)

1. forms words relating to Arabic and Arabs

Derived terms

Verbs

• Form II: عَرَّبَ‎ (ʿarraba, “to make Arabic, translate into Arabic, express”)
  • Verbal noun: تَعْرِيب‎ (taʿrīb, “Arabicizing, Arabization, translation into Arabic, adoption of loanwords into Arabic”)
  • Active participle: مُعَرِّب‎ (muʿarrib, “translator into Arabic”)
  • Passive participle: مُعَرَّب‎ (muʿarrab, “Arabicized, translated into Arabic, loanword”)
• Form IV: أَعْرَبَ‎ (ʾaʿraba, “to make Arabic, give an Arabic form to, express clearly, declare, proclaim; to use the grammatical endings”)
  • Verbal noun: إِعْرَاب‎ (ʾiʿrāb, “declaration, proclamation, expression, grammatical endings”)
  • Active participle: مُعْرِب‎ (muʿrib)
  • Passive participle: مُعْرَب‎ (muʿrab, “inflected with endings”)
• Form V: تَعَرَّبَ‎ (taʿarraba, “to become an Arab, assimilate or naturalize to the Arabs”)
  • Verbal noun: تَعَرُّب‎ (taʿarrub)
  • Active participle: مُتَعَرِّب‎ (mutaʿarrib, “Arabicized, naturalized as an Arab”)
• Form X: اِسْتَعْرَبَ‎ (istaʿraba, “to become an Arab, assimilate or naturalize to the Arabs”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِعْرَاب‎ (istiʿrāb)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَعْرِب‎ (mustaʿrib, “Arabist”)

Nouns

• عَرَب‎ (ʿarab, “Arabs”)
  • عَرَبِيّ‎ (ʿarabiyy, “Arab, Arabic”)
  • الْعَرَبِيَّة‎ (al-ʿarabiyya, “Arabic language”)
  • أَعْرَابِيّ‎ (ʾaʿrābiyy, “Bedouin”)
• عَرَّاب‎ (ʿarrāb, “godfather; translator into Arabic”)
  • عَرَّابَة‎ (ʿarrāba, “godmother”)
• عُرُوبَة‎ (ʿurūba, “Arabism, Arabdom, Arab character”)

Root

ع ر ب • (ʿ-r-b)

1. forms words related to forceful behavior

Etymology

Compare Ugaritic 𐎓𐎗𐎁 (ʿrb, “to enter”), Akkadian 𒆭𒊏 (KU₄.RA /erēbu/, “to come in, specifically of money, goods, caravan, month, season, water: to come in , to arrive , to flow in”).

Derived terms

Verbs

• Form I: عَرَبَ‎ (ʿaraba, “to be eager, to flow violently”)
  • Verbal noun: عَرْب‎ (ʿarb), عَرَب‎ (ʿarab)
  • Active participle: عَارِب‎ (ʿārib)
• Form II: عَرَّبَ‎ (ʿarraba, “to talk dirty against someone, to scold, to chide”)
  • Verbal noun: تَعْرِيب‎ (taʿrīb)
  • Active participle: مُعَرِّب‎ (muʿarrib)
  • Passive participle: مُعَرَّب‎ (muʿarrab)
• Form IV: أَعْرَبَ‎ (ʾaʿraba, “to talk obliquely about something”)
  • Verbal noun: إِعْرَاب‎ (ʾiʿrāb)
  • Active participle: مُعْرِب‎ (muʿrib)
  • Passive participle: مُعْرَب‎ (muʿrab)

Nouns

• عَرِب‎ (ʿarib, “a pond with much water”)
• عَرَبَة‎ (ʿaraba, “swift river; vehicle”)
• عَرَابَة‎ (ʿarāba, “obscene speech”)
• عَرَبِيَّة‎ (ʿarabiyya, “carriage, coach”)
• عَرْبَجِيّ‎ (ʿarbajiyy, “cabman”)
• عَرْبَخَانَة‎ (ʿarbaḵāna, “car shed, coach house”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1835), “عرب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 129–130
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “عرب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN