Arabize
English
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Verb
Arabize (third-person singular simple present Arabizes, present participle Arabizing, simple past and past participle Arabized)
- (transitive) To make Arab; to give Arab traits to.
- 1999, Bernard Lewis, "Iran in History", Mortimer and Raymond Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies, page 2:
- Iran was indeed Islamized, but it was not Arabized. Persians remained Persians. And after an interval of silence, Iran reemerged as a separate, different and distinctive element within Islam, eventually adding a new element even to Islam itself.
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to make Arab
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