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ARABIAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A spirited graceful and intelligent riding horse native to Arabia
Synonyms:
Arab; Arabian
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Arabian" is a kind of...):
mount; riding horse; saddle horse (a lightweight horse kept for riding only)
Derivation:
Arabian (of or relating to Arabian horses)
Sense 2
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
Synonyms:
Arab; Arabian
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Arabian" is a kind of...):
Semite (a member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Arabian"):
Bahraini; Bahreini (a native or inhabitant of Bahrain)
Palestinian; Palestinian Arab (a descendant of the Arabs who inhabited Palestine)
Omani (a native or inhabitant of Oman)
Katari; Qatari (a native or inhabitant of Qatar)
Saudi; Saudi Arabian (a native or inhabitant of Saudi Arabia)
Yemeni (a native or inhabitant of Yemen)
Bedouin; Beduin (a member of a nomadic tribe of Arabs)
Saracen ((when used broadly) any Arab)
Holonyms ("Arabian" is a member of...):
Arabia; Arabian Peninsula (a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important for its oil resources)
Derivation:
Arabian (relating to or associated with Arabia or its people)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to Arabian horses
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Arab (a spirited graceful and intelligent riding horse native to Arabia)
Derivation:
Arabian (a spirited graceful and intelligent riding horse native to Arabia)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Relating to or associated with Arabia or its people
Example:
Arabian Sea
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Arabia (a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important for its oil resources)
Derivation:
Arabia (a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important for its oil resources)
Arabian (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)
Context examples:
Having laid out all these luxuries, my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid for and were ordered to this address.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I shall say but little at present of their learning, which, for many ages, has flourished in all its branches among them: but their manner of writing is very peculiar, being neither from the left to the right, like the Europeans, nor from the right to the left, like the Arabians, nor from up to down, like the Chinese, but aslant, from one corner of the paper to the other, like ladies in England.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Denotes a person having origins in the region of southwest Asia, between the India subcontinent and Europe, including Kuwait, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, lands east of Pakistan or the other countries of the Arabian Peninsula.
(Middle Eastern, NCI Thesaurus)
While I listened to the instructions which Felix bestowed upon the Arabian, the strange system of human society was explained to me.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The ancients, the fathers of the Church, the moderns, the Scriptures, the Arabians, were each sent hurtling against the other, while the rain still dripped and the dark holly-leaves glistened with the moisture.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They kept alive my fancy, and my hope of something beyond that place and time,—they, and the Arabian Nights, and the Tales of the Genii,—and did me no harm; for whatever harm was in some of them was not there for me; I knew nothing of it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Glancing at the bookcases, I thought I could distinguish the two volumes of Bewick's British Birds occupying their old place on the third shelf, and Gulliver's Travels and the Arabian Nights ranged just above.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
As night came on, Agatha and the Arabian retired early.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Felix seemed peculiarly happy and with smiles of delight welcomed his Arabian.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The arrival of the Arabian now infused new life into his soul.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
