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Arabick

Arabick is the obsolete spelling of Arabic.

Meaning of Arabic

Adjective

Arabic (not comparable)

  1. Related to the Arabic language.
    • an Arabic translation
  2. Expressed in a script that was developed in Arab lands (but is not always used in the Arabic language): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
    • Arabic numerals
  3. Of, from, or pertaining to Arab countries or cultural behaviour (see also Arab as an adjective).
    • White chalk on the fascia board above the Arabic-food stall reads "Lebanon" and "Lebs rule".2012, Deborah Youdell, “Intelligibility, agency and the raced–nationed–religioned subjects of education”, in Intersectionality and "Race" in Education, →ISBN, page 202
  4. (proscribed) Arab.
    • I saw that in my workplace black co-workers had to unite with Arabic and white workers just to be able to win better wages and working conditions and certainly to be able to win a strike.1987 February 22, Dallas Williams, “Black, Gay and Red”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 31, page 5

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Questions about Arabick

What is Arabick the obsolete spelling of?
Arabick is the obsolete spelling of Arabic.

Words near Arabick in the dictionary

  1. Arabicizations
  2. Arabicize
  3. Arabicized
  4. Arabicizes
  5. Arabicizing
  6. Arabick
  7. Arabicness
  8. Arabics
  9. Arabid
  10. arabidiol
  11. arabidopsis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Arabick (page history and authors); Arabic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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