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arabicise

arabicise verb: to make Arabic, as to customs, culture, pronunciation, spelling, or style.

Verb

arabicise (third-person singular simple present arabicises, present participle arabicising, simple past and past participle arabicised)

  1. To make Arabic, as to customs, culture, pronunciation, spelling, or style.
    • ... its name was arabicised into Bihrasīr ; while the other one in Kirmān was arabicised into Bardashīr.1930, Journal of the K.R. Cama Oriental Institute - Issues 17-24, page 94
    • ... these importations, continued by the successors of this prince and by the Mertnid dynasty, soon drove the Berber element into the mountains or absorbed and arabicised it.1936, Martijn Theodoor Houtsma, Sir Thomas Walker Arnold, René Basset, The encyclopaedia of Islām, page 590

Forms of arabicise

third-person singular presentarabicises
present participlearabicising
past participlearabicised
pastarabicised

Origin of arabicise

From Arabic + -ise.

Questions about arabicise

What does arabicise mean?
Arabicise means to make Arabic, as to customs, culture, pronunciation, spelling, or style.
What part of speech is arabicise?
Arabicise is a verb.
What is the past tense of arabicise?
The past tense of arabicise is arabicised.

Words near arabicise in the dictionary

  1. Arabic studies
  2. arabica
  3. Arabical
  4. Arabically
  5. arabicas
  6. arabicise
  7. arabicised
  8. arabicises
  9. arabicising
  10. Arabicism
  11. Arabicisms

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