What is an Arab?

Question

What exactly defines an Arab?

Answer 1

It isn't someone from a specific country. Its an ethnicity. Arabs come from all over the middle east. Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Yemen, Oman, Kuwait, Egypt, Moroccans, and some others. While the arab world is predominantly Muslim, there are many Christian Arabs.

Not all Middle Easterners are Arabs, however. Iranians are Persian, Turks are Turkish, Israelis have roots in Europe and the Middle East.

Answer 2

There are two definitions.

1. Someone from ancient Arabian stock. This is a mix of peoples, including Ishmaelites (like the Quraysh tribe from which Muhammad arose)

2. Someone who speaks Arabic.

The second definition goes for 'Iraq and most of North Africa. There weren't millions of Arabs moving into 'Iraq and North Africa. There was some migration, but local North Africans and Assyrians (the ancestors of the 'Iraqis) adopted Islam and the Arabic language.

The only problem with definition 2 is that modern-day dialects are sufficiently diverse as to be mutually unintelligable. A Moroccan Arab does not speak the same language as a Jordanian Arab. The two are as different as French and Spanish. In the same way that French and Spanish people are not united by a common language anymore, neither are the Arabs. In schools, Arabs learn Classical or Modern Standard Arabic, which is used in newspapers, television, etc. but illiterate Arabs only speak local dialects.

Answer 3

Technically, an Arab by definition is any person who accepts the Muslim religion and speaks the arabic language. This means that along with middle eastern Arabs, other races and ethnicities could be considered Arab as well if they are Muslim and know Arabic.

Answer 4

Somone who orignally comes from South Arabia and speaks arabic as a mother tongue language.

Answer 5

No particular hate from Arabs to the Gulf Arabs .. that is a controversy regrettably of human beings frequently and in nature want to talk about the well known no longer about the unknown ,they want to talk about the wealthy no longer about the undesirable , they want to talk about the organisation no longer about the worker , they want to talk about the major actor interior the movie no longer about the minor actor..who ever convey a hate to an total usa even as he by no ability lived or communicated with the individuals of that usa , he might want to evaluation himself and purify little himself

Answer 6

Somebody who is from or has heritage tracing back to the Arabic nations.

Answer 7

an Arab is someone born in Sadi Arabia and is called Arab for short with Arabian. Like im called and American cause I live in America. Or English cause I live in England or Sooni cause I live in Sudan... so Arab is use for short abreviations.. Or you could be predjudice and relate all of them to the cats that sell slurpies at your local Quicki mart. Cheedy slurpy lol...

Answer 8

His country of origin

Answer 9

A Man's Man.
Of Arabian peninsula; who speaks arabic.
he loved his camel

Answer 10

is that a country near places like Jordon or Saudi Arabia