[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/arabian/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [A](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/a/) / arabian # arabian adjective (Arabian); proper noun «arabian» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. To do with Arabia, the large peninsula in south-west Asia, or its people. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arabian/#m1) 2. An Arabian horse: a fast, graceful breed of horse. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arabian/#m2) ### In the lessons Met in geography (the Arabian Peninsula, the Arabian Sea) and in stories (The Arabian Nights, Aladdin). Phrases: Arabian Peninsula, Arabian Sea, Arabian horse, Arabian Nights. ### Examples - The Arabian Peninsula is mostly desert. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arabian/#x1) - She rode a beautiful Arabian horse. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arabian/#x2) - The Arabian Sea is part of the Indian Ocean. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arabian/#x3) - "Aladdin" is one of the tales in The Arabian Nights. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arabian/#x4) - Camels live in the Arabian desert. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arabian/#x5) - Arabian horses have a dished face and high tail. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arabian/#x6) - It also crept into the voyages of Sindbad in the Arabian Nights. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arabian/#x7) ### Note Always with a capital A. Arabian is used for the land and horses; Arab for people; Arabic for the language and numerals (1, 2, 3 are "Arabic numerals"). ## In Jewish tradition Met in geography (the Arabian Peninsula, the Arabian Sea) and in stories (The Arabian Nights, Aladdin). Phrases: Arabian Peninsula, Arabian Sea, Arabian horse, Arabian Nights. ### Examples - From this sym- bol originated the numeral 0 (.ji in the East-Arabian notation. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/arabian/#x1) - "') As an early Arabian mathematiciaa Mohammed ben Musa Alkhowa- rezini said that the lodians practiced the so-called Arabian system of notation (M. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/arabian/#x2) - Indeed, the numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 were originally indicated by such a series of strokes, as is well known to all familiar with the old Roman, Greek, and South-Arabian systems of notation. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/arabian/#x3) - By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy harlotries and with thy wickedness. (Prophets JER.3.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/arabian/#x4) - It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. (Prophets ISA.13.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/arabian/#x5) - But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said: 'What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?' (Writings NEH.2.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/arabian/#x6) ### Note Always with a capital A. Arabian is used for the land and horses; Arab for people; Arabic for the language and numerals (1, 2, 3 are "Arabic numerals"). ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «arabian» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arabian/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«arabian» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/arabian.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «arabian» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/arabian/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«arabian» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/arabian.html) on Mova free.