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Arabized

Arabized is the simple past and past participle 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

Adjective

Arabized (not comparable)

  1. Having attained or been given Arab traits or characteristics.
    • The "Arab al-Muta'arribah", (Arabised Arabs) are the first advenæ represented by such noble strains as the Koraysh (Koreish), some still surviving.1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 112 footnote

Questions about Arabized

What does Arabized mean?
Arabized means having attained or been given Arab traits or characteristics.
What is Arabized the simple past and past participle of?
Arabized is the simple past and past participle of Arabize.
What part of speech is Arabized?
Arabized is an adjective.

Words near Arabized in the dictionary

  1. arabiyeh
  2. arabiyehs
  3. Arabization
  4. Arabizations
  5. Arabize
  6. Arabized
  7. Arabizes
  8. Arabizi
  9. Arabizing
  10. arable
  11. arables

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Arabized (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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