noun
Etymology
Origin of Arabist
Example Sentences
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Elisabeth Kendall, an Arabist and Yemen specialist at the University of Cambridge, put it this way in a recent CNN interview:
From Slate • Jan. 19, 2024
During his career, Sir John was regarded as the Foreign Office's foremost Arabist.
From BBC • Feb. 4, 2015
The only Arabist with real knowledge of the country was a holdover from the previous administration.
From Newsweek • Sep. 25, 2012
Arabist Tim Mackintosh-Smith was so enthralled by those journeys that, 650 years later, he retraced Ibn Battutah's first great trip to Mecca.
From Nature • Jul. 5, 2012
When first the Arabist in Europe landed at Alexandria he could not exchange a word with the people the same is told of Golius the lexicographer at Tunis.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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