Arabic

Root

ع ر ب ‎(ʿ-r-b)

1. forms words relating to Arabic and Arabs

Derived terms

• Form II: عَرَّبَ ‎(ʿarraba, “to make Arabic, translate into Arabic, express”)
  • Verbal noun: تَعْرِيب ‎(taʿrīb, “Arabicizing, Arabization, translation into Arabic, adoption of loanwords into Arabic”)
  • Active participle: مُعَرِّب ‎(muʿarrib, “translator into Arabic”)
  • Passive participle: مُعَرَّب ‎(muʿarrab, “Arabicized, translated into Arabic, loanword”)
• Form IV: أَعْرَبَ ‎(ʾaʿraba, “to make Arabic, give an Arabic form to, express clearly, declare, proclaim; to use the grammatical endings”)
  • Verbal noun: إِعْرَاب ‎(ʾiʿrāb, “declaration, proclamation, expression, grammatical endings”)
  • Active participle: مُعْرِب ‎(muʿrib)
  • Passive participle: مُعْرَب ‎(muʿrab, “inflected with endings”)
• Form V: تَعَرَّبَ ‎(taʿarraba, “to become an Arab, assimilate or naturalize to the Arabs”)
  • Verbal noun: تَعَرُّب ‎(taʿarrub)
  • Active participle: مُتَعَرِّب ‎(mutaʿarrib, “Arabicized, naturalized as an Arab”)
• Form X: اِسْتَعْرَبَ ‎(istaʿraba, “to become an Arab, assimilate or naturalize to the Arabs”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِعْرَاب ‎(istiʿrāb)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَعْرِب ‎(mustaʿrib, “Arabist”)
• عَرَب ‎(ʿarab, “Arabs”)
  • عَرَبِيّ ‎(ʿarabiyy, “Arab, Arabic”)
  • الْعَرَبِيَّة ‎(al-ʿarabiyya, “Arabic language”)
  • أَعْرَابِيّ ‎(ʾaʿrābiyy, “Bedouin”)
• عَرَّاب ‎(ʿarrāb, “godfather; translator into Arabic”)
  • عَرَّابَة ‎(ʿarrāba, “godmother”)
• عُرُوبَة ‎(ʿurūba, “Arabism, Arabdom, Arab character”)

References

• Wehr, Hans (1979), “عرب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, ISBN 0-87950-003-4