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Arabic language   /ˈærəbɪk lˈæŋgwədʒ/   Listen
Arabic language

noun
1.
The Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects.  Synonym: Arabic.






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"Arabic language" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Malaga were four hundred and fifty Moorish Jews, for the most part women, speaking the Arabic language and dressed in the Moresco fashion. These were ransomed by a wealthy Jew of Castile, farmer-general of the royal revenues derived from the Jews of Spain. He agreed to make up within a certain time the sum of twenty thousand doblas, or pistoles of gold, all the money ...
— Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada • Washington Irving

... expulsion from Spain, generally resided apart, principally in the suburbs of the towns, where they kept each other in countenance, being hated and despised by the Spaniards, and persecuted on all occasions. By this means they preserved, to a certain extent, the Arabic language, though the use of it was strictly forbidden, and encouraged each other in the secret exercise of the rites of the Mohammedan religion, so that, until the moment of their final expulsion, they continued Moors in almost every sense of the word. Such places were called ...
— The Zincali - An Account of the Gypsies of Spain • George Borrow



Words linked to "Arabic language" :   mukataa, abaya, Arabic, Semitic, shaheed, Mashriq, bayat



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