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Indo-Arabic

Indo-Arabic adjective: pertaining to the interaction between Indian and Arabic cultures.

Adjective

Indo-Arabic (comparative more Indo-Arabic, superlative most Indo-Arabic)

  1. Pertaining to the interaction between Indian and Arabic cultures.
    • Among the numerous Arabic works of the later period of Indo-Arabic literature one should mention the Manāqib al-Ḥaydariyya by the Arab writter Aḥmad al-Shirwānī at the court of Lucknow;2003, UNESCO, The different aspects of islamic culture, page 288
    • The Indo-Arabic system was introduced into Europe in 1000 CE, but due to resistance from several quarters, centuries elapsed before it finally enjoyed widespread use.2008, Jonathan Borwein, David Bailey, Mathematics by Experiment

Forms of Indo-Arabic

comparativemore Indo-Arabic
superlativemost Indo-Arabic

Origin of Indo-Arabic

From Indo- + Arabic.

Words formed from Indo-Arabic

Phrases with Indo-Arabic

Questions about Indo-Arabic

What does Indo-Arabic mean?
Indo-Arabic means pertaining to the interaction between Indian and Arabic cultures.
What part of speech is Indo-Arabic?
Indo-Arabic is an adjective.

Words near Indo-Arabic in the dictionary

  1. indns.
  2. indo
  3. Indo-
  4. Indo-African
  5. Indo-Africans
  6. Indo-Arabic
  7. Indo-Arabic numeral
  8. Indo-Arabic numerals
  9. Indo-Aryan
  10. Indo-Aryanist
  11. Indo-Aryanists

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Indo-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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