Arab fowk, kent asArabs an aw (Arabic:عرب,ʿarab), are apanethnicity[1] primarily livin in theArab warld which is locatit inWastren Asie anNorth Africae. Thay areidentified as such on ane or mair ogenealogical,linguistic, orcultural grunds,[2] wi tribal affiliations, an intra-tribal relationships playin an important pairt o Arab identity in tracin strynd o a naitional frae anArab state.[3]
The earliest documentit uise o the wird "Arab" as definin a group o fowk dates frae the 9t century BC inAssirie records which describe the indwallers o the Arabie Peninsula.[4]
The maist popular Arab accoont hauds that the wird 'Arab' came frae an eponymous faither criedYarab, who wis supposedly the first tae speak Arabic.Al-Hamdani haed anither view; he states that Arabs wur cried GhArab (Wast in Semitic) bi Mesopotamians acause Arabs residit in Wastren Mesopotamie; the term wis then corruptit intae Arab. Yet anither view is held bi Al-Masudi that the wird Arabs wis initially applee'd tae theIshmaelites o the "Arabah" valley.
The ruit o the wird haes mony meanins in Semitic leids includin "wast/sunset," "desert," "mingle," "merchant," "raven" an are "comprehensible" wi aw o these haein varyin degrees o relevance tae the emergence o the name. It is an aa possible that some forms warmetathetical fraeʿ-B-R "muivin aroond" (Arabicʿ-B-R "traverse"), an hence, it is allegit, "nomadic."
- ↑"Ghazi Tadmouri - Abstract". Hgm2011.org. 15 Mairch 2011. Archived fraethe original on 26 Julie 2011. Retrieved18 Julie 2011.
- ↑Francis Mading DengWar of visions: conflict of identities in the Sudan, Brookings Institution Press, 1995,ISBN 0-8157-1793-8 p. 405
- ↑Nicholas S. Hopkins, Saad Eddin Ibrahim eds.,Arab society: class, gender, power, and development, American University in Cairo Press, 1997, p.6
- ↑Jan RetsöThe Arabs in antiquity: their history from the Assyrians to the Umayyads, Routledge, 2003,ISBN 0-7007-1679-3, p. 105
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