Arable vs Arab - What's the difference?
arable | arab |
Able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with (pasturable) lands such as heaths).
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Under cultivation (within any quinquennial period) for the production of crops sown and harvested within the same agricultural year (contrasted with (permanent)ly-cropped lands such as orchards).
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.
As adjectives the difference between arable and arab
is that arable is able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with (pasturable) lands such as heaths) while arab is (l), arabic.As a noun arab is
(l).arable
English
(arable land)Adjective
(en adjective)- And again, since no animal now stole, it was unnecessary to fence off pasture from arable land
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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