arabisme
French, noun/a.ʁa.bism/
arabisme is spelled A-R-A-B-I-S-M-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 132,154th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arabisme is a French masculine noun meaning “Arabism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Locution, construction particulière à la langue arabe”.
What does arabisme mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineArabism
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Locution, construction particulière à la langue arabe. 2. Système politique propre au monde arabe.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of arabisme
- arabismes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arabisme?
- /a.ʁa.bism/
- /a.ʁa.bizm/
- \a.ʁa.bism\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to arabisme
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arabisme in French?
arabisme appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).