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Of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations. quotations examples
The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18
plural Arabs
A Semitic person, whose forebears were from the Arabian Peninsula examples
An inhabitant of Arabia or the Arab world examples
A member of an Arabic-speaking community examples
An Arabian horse. quotations examples
Having taken a very early breakfast, I mounted about eight o'clock my grey Arab, and without anything occurring worthy of note, killed the first three boars in the space of an hour, […]
1887, Edward B. Baker, Sport in Bengal: and How, When, and where to Seek it, page 61
(archaic) A street Arab. quotations
You Christian people often see the little gutter children — the poor little arabs in the street — and you feel much pity for them, as well you may.
a. 1892, Charles Spurgeon, a sermon
The other day I heard you complaining of the nuisance that small ragged street-boys are to you whenever you go out. […] You wished that some one would do something to clear away these little Arabs, as you are pleased to call them, so that a fine old English gentleman—as you are pleased to think yourself—might take his exercise in peace.
1866, Punch, page 225