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Arabia

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//əˈɹɛjbɪjə//
  • United States//əˈɹeɪ.bi.ə//
  • Australia//əˈɹæɪ.bi.ə//
  • Scotland//əˈɾe.be.ə//
  • Scotland//-bɪ.ə//

A peninsula of West Asia between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A peninsula of West Asia between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates.

  2. 2

    The region of West Asia within or adjacent to the Arabian Plate; Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the Egyptian Sinai, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates.

Etymology

From Latin Arabia, from Ancient Greek Ἀραβία (Arabía).

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).