different between arab vs spahi

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

From French spahi, from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (sipahi), from Persian ?????? (sepâhi, “horseman, soldier”) (> sepoy), from ????? (sepâh, “army”). Doublet of sepoy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp??hi?/

Noun

spahi (plural spahis)

1. (historical) An Ottoman (Turkish empire) cavalryman, especially as recruited under a land-based system.
   • 2001, Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red, tr. Erda? M Göknar

     I hear that the great Sadiki Bey illustrated a copy of Strange Creatures, commissioned by an Uzbek spahi cavalryman, for only forty gold pieces.

2. (historical) A soldier in a mainly Arab-recruited cavalry (originally horse, later light armored) regiment in French colonial service in (former/ in name still) Ottoman North African provinces

Related terms

• sepoy

Translations

Anagrams

• Saiph, aphis, apish, aship, pahis

Dutch

Etymology

From French spahi, from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (sipahi), from Persian ?????? (sepâhi, “horseman, soldier”) (> English sepoy), from ????? (sepâh, “army”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: spa?hi

Noun

spahi m (plural spahi's, diminutive spahietje n)

1. A spahi

Related terms

• sepoy m

French

Etymology

From Turkish sipahi, from Persian ?????? (sip?h?, “horseman, soldier”), from ????? (sip?h, “army”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spa.i/

Noun

spahi m (plural spahis)

1. A spahi

Related terms

• cipaye m

Further reading

• “spahi” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).