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Arab vs Ayrab - What's the difference?

arab | ayrab |

As nouns the difference between arab and ayrab

is that arab is a Semitic person, whose antecedents were from Arabia while Ayrab is arab.

As an adjective Arab

is of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations.

arab

English

Usage notes

The second pronunciation (with a long "a" sound) is derogatory and used only in the sense of a person.

Adjective

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  • Of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A Semitic person, whose antecedents were from Arabia
  • An inhabitant of Arabia
  • A member of an Arabic-speaking community
  • A particular breed of horse.

    • Derived terms

    * arabesque * Arabia * Arabian * Arabic * Arabist

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    ayrab

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, dialect, or, derogatory) Arab
  • * 1991 , Paul Mann, The traitor's contract
    • That's what I think of fuckin' Ayrabs . How's the old man takin' it?
  • * 2005 , Abraham Rothberg, The Holy Warriors
    • They all Muslims, and they don' wanna see a fuck-up like them Ayrabs who blew up the Trade Center gittin' caught.

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