Example sentences for: arabic

How can you use “arabic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Copts in Egypt originally wrote their language (a derivative of pharaonic Egyptian) in Greek letters; today they read their prayers in Arabic transcription.

  • The region’s exotic name is derived from the Arabic,Al-Gharb, meaning “country of the west.”

  • Other ancient Turkic languages, as Arabic and Malayalam in India, were sometimes written using Syriac (Semitic) characters.

  • Gone is the time when one might make a reasonably accurate guess at a person's race or nationality by his name; today, when blacks who do not adopt Arabic names or names like Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones might be named Kelly or Murphy, Jews born as Greenberg change their name to Monteverdi or Vermont, Hirsch to Cerf, and so forth, and people with Slavic and Italian names either change its spelling in an attempt to get people to pronounce it as closely as possible to the original (e.g.

  • Swahili words were chosen because the language, a hybrid of Arabic and Bantu tongues, is tied to no particular African tribe.


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