Arabia

See also: arabia, Arábia, Arabía, and Aràbia

English

Etymology

From Latin Arabia, from Ancient Greek Ἀραβία (Arabía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɹeɪbiə/
• Rhymes: -eɪbiə

Proper noun

Arabia

1. A peninsula 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) 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.

Derived terms

• Arabian
• Arabia Felix

Related terms

• Arab
• Arabic

Translations

a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf;

• Afrikaans: Arabië
• Albanian: Arabia (sq) ?
• Amharic: አረቢያ (ʾäräbiya)
• Arabic: شِبْهُ اَلْجَزِيرَةِ اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ‎ (ar) f (šibhu l-jazīrati l-ʿarabiyyatu)

  Egyptian Arabic: شبه الجزيرة العربية‎ f (šebh eg-gazīra el-ʿarabiyya)

• Armenian: Արաբիա (Arabia)
• Avar: Гӏарабистан (ʿarabistan)
• Azerbaijani: Ərəbistan
• Bashkir: Ғәрәбстан (Ğäräbstan)
• Basque: Arabia
• Belarusian: Ара́вія f (Arávija)
• Bulgarian: Ара́бия f (Arábija)
• Catalan: Aràbia f
• Chechen: Ӏаьрбийн ахгӀайре (ʿärbīn aχġajre)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿拉伯 (zh) (Ālābó), 阿拉伯半島 (zh), 阿拉伯半岛 (zh) (Ālābó bàndǎo)

• Corsican: Arabia f
• Czech: Arábie (cs) f
• Danish: Arabien (da) ?, Arabiske Halvø ?
• Dutch: Arabië (nl) ?
• Esperanto: Arabujo, Arabio
• Estonian: Araabia (et)
• Finnish: Arabia (fi), Arabian niemimaa (fi)
• French: Arabie (fr) f
• Galician: Arabia f
• Georgian: არაბეთი (arabeti)
• German: Arabien (de) n
• Greek: Αραβία (el) f (Aravía)

  Ancient: Ἀραβία f (Arabía)

• Hebrew: עֲרָב‎ (he) (arav)
• Hindi: अरेबिया m (arebiyā), अरबी प्रायद्वीप m (arbī prāyadvīp), अरबिस्तान (hi) m (arbistān), अरब (hi) m (arab)
• Hungarian: Arábia
• Icelandic: Arabía f
• Ido: Arabia (io)
• Indonesian: Arab (id), Jazirah Arab
• Interlingue: Arabia
• Irish: An Araib f
• Italian: Arabia f
• Japanese: アラビア (Arabia), 亜剌比亜 (Arabia)
• Kazakh: Арабия (Arabïya)
• Korean: 아라비아 (ko) (Arabia)

• Kumyk: Арабыстан (Arabıstan)
• Kyrgyz: Арапыя (Arapıya)
• Latin: Arabia (la) f
• Latvian: Arābija f
• Lithuanian: Arabija f
• Macedonian: Арабија f (Arabija)
• Malay: Arab, Tanah Arab
• Manx: Yn Arabaght f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Arabia f

  Nynorsk: Arabia f

• Old English: Arabia f
• Old Persian: 𐎠𐎼𐎲𐎠𐎹 (a-r-b-a-y /arabāya/)
• Pashto: عربستان‎ (ps) m ('arabestãn)
• Persian: عربستان‎ (fa) ('arabestân)
• Plautdietsch: Arabien n
• Polish: Arabia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Arábia (pt) f
• Romanian: Arabia f
• Russian: Ара́вия (ru) f (Arávija), Арави́йский полуо́стров (ru) m (Aravíjskij poluóstrov)
• Scottish Gaelic: Aràibia f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: А̀ра̄бија f

  Roman: Àrābija (sh) f

• Slovak: Arábia f
• Slovene: Arabija f
• Somali: Carabiya
• Spanish: Arabia (es) f
• Swahili: Uarabuni 14
• Swedish: Arabien (sv) ?
• Tagalog: Arabya
• Tajik: Арабистон (Arabiston)
• Tatar: Гарәбстан (Ğaräbstan)
• Thai: คาบสมุทรอาหรับ (kâap-sà-mùt-aa-ràp)
• Turkish: Arabistan
• Turkmen: Arabistan
• Ukrainian: Ара́вія f (Arávija), Ара́бія f (Arábija)
• Urdu: عربستان‎ m ('arbistān)
• Uyghur: ئەرەبىستان‎ (erebistan)
• Uzbek: Arabiston
• Vietnamese: Bán đảo Ả Rập
• Volapük: Larabän (vo)
• Welsh: Arabia f
• Yiddish: אַראַביע‎ ? (arabye)

Further reading

• Arabia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Abaíra

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Corsican

Etymology

From Latin Arabia, from Ancient Greek Ἀραβία (Arabía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈrabia/

Proper noun

Arabia f

1. Arabia

Derived terms

• arabu

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Finnish

Sample of Arabia's (sense #2) porcelain production.

Proper noun

Arabia

1. Arabia (peninsula)
2. A former porcelain factory in Helsinki, once largest in Europe, now one of the brands of the Fiskars Group.
3. (countable, often uncapitalized) A piece of porcelain produced by, or under the brand of Arabia.

Declension

Inflection of Arabia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Arabia	Arabiat
genitive		Arabian	Arabioiden Arabioitten
partitive		Arabiaa	Arabioita
illative		Arabiaan	Arabioihin
		singular	plural
nominative		Arabia	Arabiat
accusative	nom.	Arabia	Arabiat
	gen.	Arabian
genitive		Arabian	Arabioiden Arabioitten Arabiainrare
partitive		Arabiaa	Arabioita
inessive		Arabiassa	Arabioissa
elative		Arabiasta	Arabioista
illative		Arabiaan	Arabioihin
adessive		Arabialla	Arabioilla
ablative		Arabialta	Arabioilta
allative		Arabialle	Arabioille
essive		Arabiana	Arabioina
translative		Arabiaksi	Arabioiksi
instructive		—	Arabioin
abessive		Arabiatta	Arabioitta
comitative		—	Arabioineen

Possessive forms of Arabia (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Arabiani	Arabiamme
2nd person	Arabiasi	Arabianne
3rd person	Arabiansa

Synonyms

• (peninsula): Arabian niemimaa

Derived terms

• arabi
• arabia
• arabialainen
• arabianhevonen
• arabiankahvi
• Arabian niemimaa
• arabiansusi

 

Anagrams

• baaria

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin Arabia, from Ancient Greek Ἀραβία (Arabía).

Proper noun

Arabia f

1. Arabia

Related terms

• Arabia Saudita
• arabesco
• arabico
• arabismo

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀραβία (Arabía).

Proper noun

Arabia f sg (genitive Arabiae); first declension

1. Arabia

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Arabia
Genitive	Arabiae
Dative	Arabiae
Accusative	Arabiam
Ablative	Arabiā
Vocative	Arabia

Derived terms

• Arabia Fēlīx

References

• Arabia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Arabia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Arabia

1. Arabia

Related terms

• araber
• arabisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Arabia

1. Arabia

Related terms

• arabar
• arabisk

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Old English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Arabia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈrɑ.bi.ɑ/

Proper noun

Arabia f

1. Arabia

Declension

Declension of Arabia (strong ō-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	Arabia	—
accusative	Arabie	—
genitive	Arabie	—
dative	Arabie	—

Derived terms

• Arabisċ

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈrab.ja/

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Proper noun

Arabia f

1. Arabia

Declension

declension of Arabia

	singular
nominative	Arabia
genitive	Arabii
dative	Arabii
accusative	Arabię
instrumental	Arabią
locative	Arabii
vocative	Arabio

Related terms

• Arab, Arabka
• arabski

Further reading

• Arabia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin Arabia, from Ancient Greek Ἀραβία (Arabía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾabja/, [aˈɾaβja]

Proper noun

Arabia f

1. Arabia

Derived terms

• Arabia Saudí, Arabia Saudita

Related terms

• árabe