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アラブ
アラブ
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Arab
アラブ is an internationalism, ultimately from Arabic, first cited in Japanese in a 1914 dictionary of loanwords.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
日本は石油をアラブ諸国に頼っている。
Japan relies on Arab countries for oil.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “Internationalism, ultimately from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab); see English Arab.”
- “First cited in Japanese to a dictionary of loanwords from 1914.”
Source: Wiktionary: アラブ (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 外来語 Loanword
- Words taken from a language other than Chinese, mostly European ones, usually written in katakana.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.