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# arabian

«arabian» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **To do with Arabia, the large peninsula in south-west…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (Arabian); proper noun

### meaning for a pupil

1) To do with Arabia, the large peninsula in south-west Asia, or its people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/arabian/#m1)

2) An Arabian horse: a fast, graceful breed of horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/arabian/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Met in geography (the Arabian Peninsula, the Arabian Sea) and in stories (The Arabian Nights, Aladdin). Phrases: Arabian Peninsula, Arabian Sea, Arabian horse, Arabian Nights.

### examples

- From this sym- bol originated the numeral 0 (.ji in the East-Arabian notation. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/arabian/#x1)
- "') As an early Arabian mathematiciaa Mohammed ben Musa Alkhowa- rezini said that the lodians practiced the so-called Arabian system of notation (M. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/arabian/#x2)
- Indeed, the numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 were originally indicated by such a series of strokes, as is well known to all familiar with the old Roman, Greek, and South-Arabian systems of notation. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/arabian/#x3)
- By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy harlotries and with thy wickedness. (Prophets JER.3.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/arabian/#x4)
- It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. (Prophets ISA.13.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/arabian/#x5)
- But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said: 'What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?' (Writings NEH.2.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/arabian/#x6)
- The Arabian Peninsula is mostly desert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/arabian/#x7)
- She rode a beautiful Arabian horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/arabian/#x8)
- The Arabian Sea is part of the Indian Ocean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/arabian/#x9)
- "Aladdin" is one of the tales in The Arabian Nights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/arabian/#x10)
- Camels live in the Arabian desert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/arabian/#x11)
- Arabian horses have a dished face and high tail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/arabian/#x12)
- It also crept into the voyages of Sindbad in the Arabian Nights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/arabian/#x13)

### note

Always with a capital A. Arabian is used for the land and horses; Arab for people; Arabic for the language and numerals (1, 2, 3 are "Arabic numerals").

### In the corpora

- [And the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians that are beside the Ethiopians;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.471/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «arabian» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/arabian/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.