Arabize

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Etymology tree
English Arab
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English Arabize

    From Arab + -ize.

    Verb

    Arabize (third-person singular simple present Arabizes, present participle Arabizing, simple past and past participle Arabized)

    1. (transitive) To make Arab; to give Arab traits to.
      Synonym: Arabicize
      • 1999, Bernard Lewis, "Iran in History", Mortimer and Raymond Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies, page 2:
        Iran was indeed Islamized, but it was not Arabized. Persians remained Persians. And after an interval of silence, Iran reemerged as a separate, different and distinctive element within Islam, eventually adding a new element even to Islam itself.

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