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Arabizing

Arabizing is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about Arabizing

What is Arabizing the present participle and gerund of?
Arabizing is the present participle and gerund of Arabize.

Words near Arabizing in the dictionary

  1. Arabizations
  2. Arabize
  3. Arabized
  4. Arabizes
  5. Arabizi
  6. Arabizing
  7. arable
  8. arables
  9. Arabness
  10. Arabo-
  11. Arabocentric

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