Noun: Arabic
| Singular | Arabic |
| Plural | Arabics |
Sample Sentences
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He was speaking an Arabic that they'd never heard before and could barely understand.
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That's the majority of working N'Yawkers. Blacks and Hispanics outnumber the arabics. [2000 July 20, Topprolmc, “OT - I participated in an obscene act today!”, in rec.motorcycles.harley (Usenet):]
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Classic Arabic didn't "turn into" the various Arabic vernaculars. There is disagreement over whether the range of spoken Arabics all have a single ancestor (seems unlikely), but Classical Arabic is a somewhat artificial creation based on at least two dialects. [2004 April 22, Peter T. Daniels, “Taiwanese and their language”, in soc.culture.china (Usenet):]
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A novel writer will usually spell out Arabics from one to nine, to accord with the tone of the genre.
Nouns inflected like Arabic
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab)bor.
3. Ancient Greek Ἄραψ (Áraps)
4. Proto-Indo-European *-kos
5. Proto-Hellenic *-kos
6. Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
7. Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
8. Ancient Greek Ἀραβικός (Arabikós)bor.
9. Latin arabicusbor.
10. English Arabic
11. From Latin arabicus, from Ancient Greek Ἀραβικός (Arabikós), from Ἄραψ (Áraps, “Arab”) [from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab)] + -ικός (-ikós, adjective suffix). By surface analysis, Arab + -ic. See: Latin Nouns '
arabicus'.