Arabism

English

Etymology

From Arab +‎ -ism.

Noun

Arabism (plural Arabisms)

1. An idiom characteristic of the Arabic language.
   • 2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin, published 2012, page 111:

     The translator, Joseph-Charles Mardrus, knew Arabic and he used some Arabic texts as the basis of his rewriting of the collection of ancient Eastern tales which he titled, in a daring Arabism in French, Les Mille Nuits et Une Nuit […]

   • 1821, Moses Stuart, Hebrew Grammar with a Copious Syntax and a Praxis:

     Arabisms, properly speaking, occur only as it respects form, in a few words; and this, it is probable, is only the result of negligent transcription. The Arabic language never exercised any predominating influence over the Hebrew.

Coordinate terms

• (foreignisms) foreignism; Akkadianism / Akkadism, Americanism, Amharism, Anglicism, Arabism, Aramaism, Armenism, Australianism, Batavism, Belorussianism, Bengalism, Briticism, Bulgarism, Catalanism, Church Slavicism / Church Slavonicism / Slavonicism, Croatism, Czechism / Bohemianism, Gallicism / Frenchism, Germanism / Teutonism, Grecism / Hellenism, Hebraism, Hispanism / Hispanicism / Castilianism, Hungarianism / Magyarism, Indianism, Iranianism, Irishism, Italianism / Italicism, Japanism, Kazakhism, Latinism, Macedonianism, Mandaism, Moravianism, New Zealandism, Persianism, Polonism, Portuguesism, Russianism, Scotticism, Serbism, Serbo-Croatism, Sinicism, Slavism, Slovenism / Pannonianism, Sumerianism / Sumerism, Syriacism, Turkism, Ukrainism / Ukrainianism, Uzbekism, Yiddishism

Translations

an idiom characteristic of the Arabic language

• Arabic: عُرُوبَة f (ʕurūba)
• Catalan: arabisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿拉伯主義／阿拉伯主义 (ālābózhǔyì)

• Czech: arabismus (cs) m
• French: arabisme (fr) m
• Georgian: არაბიზმი (arabizmi)
• German: Arabismus (de) m
• Polish: arabizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: arabismo (pt) m
• Russian: араби́зм (ru) m (arabízm)
• Slovak: arabizmus m
• Spanish: arabismo (es) m

Anagrams

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