Arab /ˈæɹəb/noun 4adjective 1forms 1 noun4 •A member of the Semitic ethnic group native to the Arabian Peninsula. •A person from the Middle East and North Africa, whose mother tongue is Arabic.This backlash also fails to take into account that Israel, for all its faults, is a multicultural society where almost half of graduating doctors today are Arabs or Druze. — 2023 •An Arabian horse.Having taken a very early breakfast, I mounted about eight o'clock my grey Arab, and without anything occurring worthy of note, killed the first three boars in the space of an hour, […] — 1887 •(no longer used) A street Arab.You Christian people often see the little gutter children — the poor little arabs in the street — and you feel much pity for them, as well you may. — 1892 adjective1 •Of or pertaining to Arabs and their nations. formsArabs