Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: arabian
IPA transcription: [əɹ'eɪbiən]
Pronunciations of arabian
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Arabian
    Meaning: of or relating to Arabian horses
  • Synonyms: Arabian
    Meaning: relating to or associated with Arabia or its people; "Arabian Nights"; "Arabian Sea"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Arabian, Arab
    Meaning: a spirited graceful and intelligent riding horse native to Arabia
  • Synonyms: Arab, Arabian
    Meaning: a member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa
Usage examples
  • We need not call it the Arabian's cave.
  • This historic country is bounded on the east by Persia and on the west by the Arabian desert.
  • As he was finishing it the guinea pigs lit some Arabian incense, which gradually filled the room with clouds of blue vapour.
  • Of the various kinds of coffee the Arabian is considered the best. It is grown chiefly in the districts of Aden and Mocha; whence the name of our Mocha coffee.
  • She placed herself in the middle of the court, where she made a great circle, and within it she wrote several words in Arabian characters, some of them ancient.
  • Safie nursed her with the most devoted affection, but the poor girl died, and the Arabian was left alone, unacquainted with the language of the country and utterly ignorant of the customs of the world.
  • So he repelled the Jews in great measure by the Arabian archers, and the Syrian slingers, and by those that threw stones at them, nor was there any intermission of the great number of their offensive engines.
  • Even Davy, when he was permitted to look at the wonderful pictures in her "Arabian Nights," or "Pilgrim's Progress," or "Mother Goose," had to sit with his hands behind his back while she carefully turned the leaves.
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