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- Arabic - a. - Of or pertaining to Arabia or the Arabians.
- Arabic - n. - The language of the Arabians.
- Arabical - a. - Relating to Arabia; Arabic.
- Arabist - n. - One well versed in the Arabic language or literature; also, formerly, one who followed the Arabic system of surgery.
- Al- - A prefix. - The Arabic definite article answering to the English the; as, Alkoran, the Koran or the Book; alchemy, the chemistry.
- Numeration - n. - The act or art of reading numbers when expressed by means of numerals. The term is almost exclusively applied to the art of reading numbers written in the scale of tens, by the Arabic method.
- Tragacanth - n. - A kind of gum procured from a spiny leguminous shrub (Astragalus gummifer) of Western Asia, and other species of Astragalus. It comes in hard whitish or yellowish flakes or filaments, and is nearly insoluble in water, but slowly swells into a mucilaginous mass, which is used as a substitute for gum arabic in medicine and the arts. Called also gum tragacanth.
- Arabism - n. - An Arabic idiom peculiarly of language.
- Roman - a. - Expressed in letters, not in figures, as I., IV., i., iv., etc.; -- said of numerals, as distinguished from the Arabic numerals, 1, 4, etc.
- Numeral - n. - A figure or character used to express a number; as, the Arabic numerals, 1, 2, 3, etc.; the Roman numerals, I, V, X, L, etc.
- Hindustani - n. - The language of Hindostan; the name given by Europeans to the most generally spoken of the modern Aryan languages of India. It is Hindi with the addition of Persian and Arabic words.