Araib

Irish

Etymology

From Latin Arabia, from Ancient Greek Ἀραβία (Arabía).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈaɾˠəbʲ]

Proper noun

An Araib f (genitive na hAraibe)

Arabia (a peninsula of Western Asia between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates)
(broader sense) Arabia (the region of Western Asia within or adjacent to the Arabian Plate; Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the Egyptian Sinai, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates)

Declension

Declension of Araib (second declension, no plural)

bare forms
	singular
nominative	Araib
vocative	a Araib
genitive	Araibe
dative	Araib

forms with the definite article
	singular
nominative	an Araib
genitive	na hAraibe
dative	leis an Araib don Araib

Derived terms

Arabach (“Arabic, Arabian”, adjective)
Arabach m (“Arab; Arabian”)
Araib Shádach f (“Saudi Arabia”)
Araibis f (“the Arabic language”)
Cuan na hAraibe m (“the Arabian Gulf”)
Leithinis na hAraibe f (“the Arabian Peninsula”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of *Araib*
radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
Araib	nAraib	hAraib	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Araib”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
“Araib”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025