different between arab vs mukhtar

Albanian

Noun

arab

1. Arab (person)

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??r?b]
• Hyphenation: arab
• Rhymes: -?b

Adjective

arab (not comparable)

1. Arabic (relating to Arabia)

Declension

Derived terms

Noun

arab (countable and uncountable, plural arabok)

1. Arabian (person)
2. Arabic (language)

Declension

Further reading

• arab in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• arab in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2021)

Occitan

Pronunciation

Adjective

arab m (feminine singular araba, masculine plural arabs, feminine plural arabas)

1. Arab

   Synonym: arabi

Noun

arab m (uncountable)

1. Arabic (language)

   Synonym: arabi

Rendille

Noun

arab

1. elephant

Further reading

• Günther Schlee, Karaba Sahado, Rendille Proverbs in their Social and Legal Context (2002)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French arabe. Compare the doublet arap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?rab/

Adjective

arab m or n (feminine singular arab?, masculine plural arabi, feminine and neuter plural arabe)

1. Arab, Arabic

Declension

Noun

arab m (plural arabi, feminine equivalent arab? or ar?boaic?)

1. Arab (person)

Declension

See also

• maur

Swedish

Noun

arab c

1. Arab (person)

Declension

Related terms

• arabisk
• arabiska

Anagrams

• bara

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ????????? (mu?t?r, “chosen”, adjective), the passive participle of ?????????? (i?t?ra, “to elect, pick, select; to choose, to make one's choice”). Sense 2 (“person acting as an agent; lawyer”) is derived through one or more Indian languages, particularly Bengali ?????? (mukhtar), Marathi ??????? (mukht?r), and Urdu ?????? (mukt?r), influenced through folk etymology by Sanskrit ?????? (mukti, “becoming or setting free, liberation”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?kt??/, [?m?x-]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?kt??/
• Hyphenation: mukh?tar

Noun

mukhtar (plural mukhtars)

1. In the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, many Arab countries, Cyprus, and other places: the head of a village, town, etc.; or a minor official of a province.
   1. (specifically) Alternative spelling of muhtar (“in Turkey, the elected head of a village, or of a neighbourhood in a town or city”)
2. (India, historical) A person acting as an agent; specifically, a lawyer. [early 19th – mid 20th c.]

Alternative forms

• mooktar, muhtar, muktar, muqtar

Related terms

• Mukhtar

Translations

References

Further reading

• mukhtar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• muhtar (title) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sandra Anderson [et al.], editors (1998) The Chambers Dictionary, London: Chambers, ?ISBN, page 1060.
• “mukhtar”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).