1. Arabian / Arab (gentilicium) — The gentilic noun 'Arabi designates a person (or people) from Arabia, used both in singular and plural forms. All four clusters refer to the same ethnic/geographic identity with only grammatical variation: singular vs. plural, with or without conjunctive waw, and different prepositions. Multilingual glosses confirm unity: Spanish 'arabe/arabes', Hindi 'Arabi/Arabiyon', Arabic 'al-Arabi/al-Arab', Korean 'Arabiain/Arab saramdeul', and Swahili 'Mwarabu/Waarabu' (singular/plural). No semantic distinction warrants separate senses. 6×
AR["العَرَبُ","الْعَرَبِيُّ","الْعَرَبِيِّ","مَعَ-الْعَرَبِ","وَ-الْعَرَبُ","وَالعَرَبِ"]·ben["-আরবীয়দের-সঙ্গে","আর-আরবীয়দের","আরবীয়","আরবীয়কে","আরবীয়রা","এবং-আরবীয়রা"]·DE["[בערבים]","[הערבי]","[הערביאים]","[והערבים]"]·EN["and-the-Arabs","and-the-Aravim","the-Arab","the-Arabian","the-Arabians","with-the-Aravim"]·FR["[בערבים]","[הערבי]","[הערביאים]","[והערבים]"]·heb["ב-ה-ערבים","ה-ערבי","ה-ערביאים","ו-ה-ערבים"]·HI["अरबियोंकेसाथ","अरबी","अरबी-ने","और-अरबियोंकी","के-अरबी"]·ID["dan-orang-orang-Arab","dengan-orang-orang-Arab","orang-Arab","orang-orang-Arab"]·IT["Arabo","e-Arabo"]·jav["lan-tiyang-Arab","lan-tiyang-tiyang-Arab","sareng-tiyang-Arab","tiyang-Arab"]·KO["그-아라비아인","그-아라비아인들과","그-아락사람","그-아랍-사람들-과-함께","그-아랍-사람들이","그리고-그-아라비아인들의"]·PT["com-os-árabes","e-os-árabes","o-árabe","os-árabes"]·RU["а-аравийцы","араба","аравитянин","и-а-аравийцев","и-аравитяне","с-Аравитянами"]·ES["con-los-árabes","el-árabe","los-árabes","y-los-árabes"]·SW["Mwarabu","Waarabu","na-Waarabu","pamoja-na-Waarabu"]·TR["Arap","Araplar","Araplarla","ve-Araplar","ve-Arapların"]·urd["اور-عربوں-کی","اور-عربیوں-نے","عربوں-کے-ساتھ","عربی","عربی-کے"]
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† עַרְבִי adj.gent. Arabian (in strictly ethnographic sense, Nöl.c.);—הָע׳ as subst. Ne 2:19 Geshem the Arabian, so 6:1; pl. הָעַרְבִים Ne 4:1 2 Ch 21:16; 22:1; also (written as NH) הערביים 26:7 (Qr הָעַרְבִים), and even הָעַרְבִיאִים 17:11.