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Arabise

Arabise is the alternative spelling of Arabize.

Meaning of Arabize

Verb

Arabize (third-person singular simple present Arabizes, present participle Arabizing, simple past and past participle Arabized)

  1. (transitive) To make Arab; to give Arab traits to.
    • Iran was indeed Islamized, but it was not Arabized. Persians remained Persians. And after an interval of silence, Iran reemerged as a separate, different and distinctive element within Islam, eventually adding a new element even to Islam itself.1999, Bernard Lewis, "Iran in History", Mortimer and Raymond Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies, page 2
    Synonyms:
    Arabicize

Forms of Arabise

third-person singular presentArabises
present participleArabising
past participleArabised
pastArabised

Origin of Arabise

From Arab + -ise.

Questions about Arabise

What is Arabise the alternative spelling of?
Arabise is the alternative spelling of Arabize.

Words near Arabise in the dictionary

  1. arabinoxylooligosaccharide
  2. arabinoxylooligosaccharides
  3. arabins
  4. Arabisation
  5. Arabisations
  6. Arabise
  7. Arabised
  8. Arabises
  9. Arabish
  10. Arabising
  11. Arabism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Arabise (page history and authors); Arabize (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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