Arab vs Mintaqah - What's the difference?
arab | mintaqah |
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= A Semitic person, whose antecedents were from Arabia
An inhabitant of Arabia
A member of an Arabic-speaking community
A particular breed of horse.
A first-level used in Saudi Arabia and several other Arab countries.
As nouns the difference between arab and mintaqah
is that arab is a Semitic person, whose antecedents were from Arabia while mintaqah is a first-level country subdivision used in Saudi Arabia and several other Arab countries.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
(-)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.}}
