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Arabian Basin
Arabian Basin: an undersea basin of the Arabian Sea near 12°N, 65°E in the GEBCO gazetteer, and the asymmetric Upper Precambrian-Phanerozoic sedimentary basin on the Arabian Plate, about 8 km deep.
Arabian Desert
Arabian Desert: the arid region covering most of the Arabian Peninsula, eastern half of the Saharo-Arabian belt. Contains the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter), the world's largest continuous sand desert at about 660,000 square kilometers, with a history of Miocene hyperaridity and recurrent humid phases.
Arabian Desert Safari
Arabian Desert Safari names a drive-through native-wildlife zone at Dubai Safari Park, several Dubai desert tour operators, and conservation safaris in reserves such as Hegra and the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve.
Arabian Falcons FC
Arabian Falcons FC (Arabian Falcons Football Club) is a Dubai-based men's football club founded in 2023, competing in the UAE Second Division; 2023–24 UAE Third Division champions, managed by former England midfielder Jonjo Shelvey, unrelated to Saudi women's football.
Arabian horse
Arabian horse (الخيل العربية), one of the oldest horse breeds from the Middle East; dished face, high tail carriage, elite endurance (20 km/h for 160 km); SCID, LFS, CA, OAAM genetic disorders with DNA tests; Straight Egyptian, Polish, Saudi subgroups.
Arabian Interior
Arabian Interior, FEOW ecoregion 440, Palearctic xeric endorheic-basin freshwater ecoregion covering the Arabian Peninsula's internal basins into Jordan and Syria; few freshwater habitats, 10 fish species with 8 endemics, key site the Azraq Oasis.
Arabian leopard
Arabian leopard (Panthera pardus nimr), smallest leopard subspecies, critically endangered with 100–120 wild individuals in Oman and Yemen; extinct or nearly so in Saudi Arabia; recovery relies on captive breeding and reintroduction programs.
Arabian Nights (1974 film)
Arabian Nights (Il fiore delle mille e una notte) is a 1974 Italian-French comedy-drama-fantasy film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, the final film of his Trilogy of Life.
Arabian Nights and Days
Arabian Nights and Days (Layālī alf laylah) is a 1979 novel by Naguib Mahfouz that reworks The Thousand and One Nights into an allegory of power and corruption.
Arabian oryx (المها العربي)
The Arabian oryx (المها العربي, Al Maha; Oryx leucoryx) is a desert antelope of the Arabian Peninsula, extinct in the wild by 1972 and later restored by reintroduction.
Arabian Peninsula (شبه الجزيرة العربية)
The Arabian Peninsula (شبه الجزيرة العربية, Jazīrat al-ʿArab) is southwestern Asia's arid peninsula with Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Yemen; defined by Red Sea rifting, oil-bearing sedimentary basins, extreme water scarcity, and accelerating warming.
Arabian Plate
The Arabian Plate is a tectonic plate carrying the Arabian Peninsula and parts of the Middle East, formed when it rifted from Africa about 25 million years ago.
Arabian Prince
Arabian Prince (Kim Renard Nazel, born 1965, Compton) is an American electro-funk rapper, producer, DJ, and founding N.W.A member who left in 1988, produced J.J. Fad's platinum "Supersonic," and later built a video game and music-technology career.
Arabian Sea
The Arabian Sea is the northwestern Indian Ocean between India, Arabia, and Iran-Pakistan, linked to the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, driven by reversing monsoon winds, and hosting the world's thickest oxygen minimum zone.
Arabian-Nubian Shield
The Arabian-Nubian Shield is an exposure of juvenile Neoproterozoic crust in Egypt, Sudan, Arabia, and surrounding countries, split in two by the Red Sea rift.
Arabic
Arabic (العربية), a Middle Eastern and North African language, is one of six official UN languages (since 1973) and is defined by diglossia: the uniform Modern Standard Arabic of writing and formal use versus regional spoken dialects with varying mutual intelligibility.
Arabic alphabet (الأبجدية العربية)
The Arabic alphabet (الأبجدية العربية) is a 28-letter right-to-left abjad descended from the Nabataean script, standardized through Qur'anic transmission and extended to Persian, Urdu, and other languages.
Arabic calligraphy
Arabic calligraphy is the art of writing the Arabic script with flowing strokes, a major art of the Islamic and Arab worlds inscribed by UNESCO in 2021.
Arabic chat alphabet
Arabic chat alphabet, also called Arabizi (عربيزي) or Franco-Arabic, is informal Arabic written in Latin script with numerals (2, 3, 5, 7, 9) for Arabic-only sounds; it emerged in the 1990s for texting, has no standard orthography, and varies by dialect.
Arabic children's literature
Arabic children's literature (أدب الأطفال) is Arabic-language literature for children and adolescents, taking organized shape in Egypt in the early twentieth century with Kamel Kilani's 1928 Sinbad the Sailor.
Arabic coffee (قهوة)
Arabic coffee (قهوة, qahwa/gahwa) is a lightly roasted, cardamom-spiced hospitality coffee of the Arabian Peninsula, poured from a dallah into small finjan cups; UNESCO-inscribed in 2015 (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar) and extended to Jordan in 2024.
Arabic detective fiction
Arabic detective fiction (الرواية البوليسية العربية) is crime fiction written in Arabic, begun through translations in the late 19th century and developed as original Arabic literature from the 1960s.
Arabic diacritics
Arabic diacritics (tashkil, التشكيل) are optional combining marks for short vowels, gemination, and vowel absence in the Arabic abjad; distinct from ijam letter-dots, gradient in real use, and a key challenge for Arabic NLP.
Arabic diary literature
Arabic diary literature (yawmiyyāt) is Arabic life writing in dated, day-by-day entries governed by the calendar rather than plot; early examples include Ibn Kannan's and al-Budayri's 18th-century Damascene diaries.
Arabic epistolary literature
Arabic epistolary literature is the tradition of Arabic letter writing (rasāʾil), which grew from Umayyad and Abbasid chancery administration into a major art prose form.
Arabic essay
The Arabic essay (المقالة, maqāla) is a modern prose genre in Arabic literature presenting an organized argument from the writer's viewpoint; it emerged with Arabic journalism in Egypt.
Arabic free verse
Arabic free verse (الشعر الحر, al-shiʿr al-ḥurr) is a modern Arabic poetic form that emerged in Iraq in 1947 with Nazik al-Mala'ika and Badr Shakir al-Sayyab.
Arabic grammar
Arabic grammar (naḥw and ṣarf) covers morphology and syntax of Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic (al-fuṣḥā), and dialects: root-and-pattern derivation, iʿrāb case endings, iḍāfa, particles, diglossia, and the grammatical tradition from Sībawayhi's al-Kitāb onward.
Arabic Infancy Gospel
The Arabic Infancy Gospel, self-titled the Gospel of the Infancy, is an apocryphal Christian text recounting Jesus' birth, the flight into Egypt, and childhood miracles.
Arabic literature
Arabic literature (الأدب العربي): writing in Arabic from pre-Islamic Jahiliyya poetry through the Abbasid and Andalusian classics to the modern novel and free verse. Distinguished by classical arud metrics, the Nahda's new genres, Naguib Mahfouz's 1988 Nobel Prize, and prizes such as IPAF and the Banipal translation prize.