arab : Idioms & Phrases

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arab chief

  • noun the leader of an Arab village or family
    sheikh; tribal sheikh; tribal sheik; sheik.
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arab league

  • noun an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation
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arab republic of egypt

  • noun a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC
    Egypt; Arab Republic of Egypt.
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arab revolutionary brigades

  • noun a Palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the PLO in 1974; has conducted terrorist attacks in 20 countries
    ANO; Abu Nidal Organization; Black September; Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims; Fatah Revolutionary Council; Fatah-RC.
    • in the 1980s the Fatah-RC was considered the most dangerous and murderous Palestinian terror group
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arab-berbers

  • noun an ethnic minority descended from Berbers and Arabs and living in northern Africa
    Berbers.
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arab-israeli war

  • noun Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in October 1973 (on Yom Kippur); Israel counterattacked and drove the Syrians back and crossed the Suez Canal into Egypt
    Yom Kippur War.
  • noun tension between Arabs and Israeli erupted into a brief war in June 1967; Israel emerged as a major power in the Middle East
    Six-Day War; Six Day War.
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palestinian arab

  • noun a descendant of the Arabs who inhabited Palestine
    Palestinian.
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socialist people's libyan arab jamahiriya

  • noun a military dictatorship in northern Africa on the Mediterranean; consists almost entirely of desert; a major exporter of petroleum
    Libya.
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Street Arab

  • noun (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets
    throwaway; gamin.
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  • a homeless vagabond in the streets of a city, particularly and outcast boy or girl. Tylor.
    The ragged outcasts and street Arabs who are shivering in damp doorways. Lond. Sat. Rev.
Webster 1913

syrian arab republic

  • noun an Asian republic in the Middle East at the east end of the Mediterranean; site of some of the world's most ancient centers of civilization
    Syria.
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united arab emirate dirham

  • noun the basic unit of money in the United Arab Emirates; equal to 1,000 fils
    dirham.
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united arab emirate monetary unit

  • noun monetary unit in the United Arab Emirates
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united arab emirates

  • noun a federation of seven Arab emirates on the eastern Arabian peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1971; rich in oil reserves
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united arab emirates's capital

  • noun a sheikhdom of eastern Arabia and capital of the United Arab Emirates
    Abu Dhabi.
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united arab republic

  • noun a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC
    Egypt; Arab Republic of Egypt.
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