of or pertaining to Arabs plus their nations A person of Arab originA breed of horseArab means belonging or relating to Arabs or to their countries or customs. On the surface, it appears little has changed in the Arab world. Arabic. someone whose language is Arabic plus whose family comes from, or originally came from the Middle East or North Africa (Arabus, from Araps, from ‘Arab). Any member of the Arabic-speaking peoples native to the Middle East plus North Africa. Before the spread of Islam in the 630s, the term referred to the largely nomadic Semitic peoples of the Arabian Peninsula; it came to apply to Arabic-speaking peoples from Africa’s Mauritanian plus Moroccan coasts east to Iraq plus the Arabian Peninsula plus south to The Sudan after their acceptance of Islam. Traditionally, some Arabs are desert-dwelling pastoral nomads (see Bedouin), whereas others live by oases plus in small, isolated farming villages. While most Arabs are Muslims, some are Christian. The term has also been used in a political sense by Arab nationalists to describe a greater sociolinguistic or ethnic ideal (“the Arab nation”). See also Pan-Arabism. United Arab Republic Arab Republic of Egypt Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriyyah Syrian Arab Republic Arab League League of Arab States Arab Israeli wars Saharan Arab Democratic Republic Shatt al Arab Arab Israeli War of 1967 United Arab Emiratesa spirited graceful plus intelligent riding horse native to Arabiaa member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula plus surrounding territories who speaks Arabic plus who inhabits much of the Middle East plus northern Africas of a Semitic people living in the Middle East plus northern Africai member of a Semitic people living in the Middle East plus northern AfricaArabicArabs are people who speak Arabic plus who come from the Middle East plus parts of North Africaambush, a city in the mountains of Judah (Josh 15: 52), now Er-Rabiyehn ArabA person whose origins may be traced to an Arab cultural, ethnic or linguistic heritage Countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Jordan have predominantly Arab populations There are some countries in the Middle East, such as Iran or Turkey, whose populations are not predominantly Arab Other countries such as Egypt, Libya, Morocco have mixed Arab plus North African populations Arabs belong to many different religions Throughout the Middle East, millions of Arab Christians plus Arab Jews live peacefully with their Arab Muslim neighborsOne of a swarthy race occupying Arabia, plus numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc