arabic : Idioms & Phrases

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arabic alphabet

  • noun the alphabet of 28 characters derived from Aramaic and used for writing Arabic languages (and borrowed for writing Urdu)
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arabic language

  • noun the Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects
    Arabic.
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arabic numeral

  • noun one of the symbols 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0
    Arabic numeral; Hindu numeral.
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Arabic numerals or figures

  • the nine digits, 1, 2, 3, etc., and the cipher 0.
Webster 1913

Gum arabic

  • noun gum from an acacia tree; used as a thickener (especially in candies and pharmaceuticals)
    gum acacia.
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  • , a gum yielded mostly by several species of Acacia (chiefly A. vera and A. Arabica) growing in Africa and Southern Asia; called also gum acacia. East Indian gum arabic comes from a tree of the Orange family which bears the elephant apple.
Webster 1913

hindu-arabic numeral

  • noun one of the symbols 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0
    Arabic numeral; Hindu numeral.
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