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arabian

UK/əˈɹeɪ.bi.ən/US/əˈɹeɪ.bi.ən/
adjectiveB1+Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,572 of 15,258leans written

Arabian means belonging to the great desert peninsula of south-west Asia. The Arabian coast.

It describes the place, where Arab describes the people and Arabic the language. An Arabian horse is one of the oldest breeds there is and shows in nearly every other.

SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE · Public domain

Definitions of arabian

  1. 1adjectivearabianBelonging to the great desert peninsula of south-west Asia.B1+

    “The Arabian side of the gulf was empty for a hundred miles.”

arabian is a quality.

Where it comes from

Arabian comes from Arabia + -n.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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