How to Use Arabic in a Sentence

Arabic

1 of 2 noun
  • Signs outside most of the stores are written in Arabic.
    — USA TODAY, 2024-02-17
  • Soldiers shone lights in their faces and spoke in Arabic and Hebrew.
    — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 2023-11-23
  • Tata is the informal word for grandma in Lebanese Arabic.
    — Kaitlin Stevens, Peoplemag, 2024-03-03
  • Neta said that his mom, who had worked as a nurse and midwife, spoke in Arabic to try to calm down the attackers.
    — Brian Bennett, Time, 2023-10-10
  • Bengali and Arabic joined English on signs at City Hall.
    — Allan Lengel, Anchorage Daily News, 2023-09-16
  • In his living room, the television was set to Al Jazeera Arabic.
    — Rozina Ali, The New Yorker, 2023-11-07
  • In phonetic Lebanese Arabic, the name for the recipe is murabba el meshmosh.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 2023-06-28
  • She was then instructed to sign a form, which was written in Arabic, and permitted to leave the airport.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 2023-10-03
  • Right-to-left scripts such as Hebrew or Arabic can complicate the translation process.
    — Ihor Hamal, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The guards taught her son Gal 250 words in Arabic to keep him occupied and brought him a notebook to study.
    — Anat Schwartz Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, New York Times, 2023-12-15
  • Many of its citizens speak Arabic as easily as Turkish.
    — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 2023-08-06
  • Plates were piled high with dates, rice, chicken and lentils, as guests chatted in a mix of Arabic, Hebrew and English.
    — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 2024-03-28
  • One person asked, in Arabic, about issues concerning a lack of follow-up from the 49th Precinct.
    — Chris Crowley, Curbed, 2023-11-03
  • The outlet released a report and photos of the documents, all in Arabic, on Friday.
    — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 2023-10-14
  • At the time, Abu Dagga worked for the Independent Arabic.
    — Kareem Khadder, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The documentary is told in a mix of Arabic, English, French and Kurdish.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 2023-10-05
  • All around me, the dining room hummed with conversations in Italian, English, and Arabic.
    — Jackie Cooperman, Robb Report, 2023-04-06
  • These days, Parkinson is retired but is working on a new translation of the Arabic Book of Mormon.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 2022-07-10
  • Messages come in a rush of many voices, languages mixed seamlessly, Arabic spelled out phonetically.
    — Jordan P. Hickey, Longreads, 2024-02-22
  • When starting to learn Arabic, few students of the language would expect the journey to lead them back to slavery in the antebellum South.
    — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 2023-08-10
  • Ink is a nebulous material, Little explained in a phone call, made from nearly anything rich in pigments along with the binder gum Arabic.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 2024-03-28
  • Surat, meaning ‘snapshots’ in Sudanese Arabic, is a tribute to Atem’s own household through family photos.
    — Rica Cerbarano, Vogue, 2022-04-29
  • Al Jazeera Arabic’s power lies in its costume, the pretence of being a legitimate, independent news outlet.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Arabesques is his only novel, but Shammas is a gifted and prolific translator to and from Arabic, Hebrew, and English.
    — Ruth Margalit, The New York Review of Books, 2023-03-30
  • The accident resulted in the deaths of three people, the MOHP said in its initial post, which was originally penned in Arabic.
    — Bailey Richards, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The song dropped in the lead up to the game’s release, with the lyrics co-written by Ryan Tedder, and a feature by Mishaal singing in Arabic, where both verses take inspiration from the video game.
    — Maha Elnabawi, Billboard, 2024-01-09
  • Numerous colorful flags with religious phrases and the name of Imam Hussein in Arabic fluttered among the crowd as families walked together, young and old, most dressed in black as a symbol of mourning, some pushing strollers and wagons with their children.
    — Niraj Warikoo, Freep.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • As Valentina looks to attend high school, a coalition of other Arabic community members are advocating that District 230 consider adding Arabic to its world languages program.
    — Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Checkers of my era—their number grew from twenty to twenty-five during my three-year tenure—collectively spoke fifteen languages, including Urdu, Cantonese, Japanese, Arabic, Greek, Russian, and Twi, with a working knowledge of ancient Greek and Latin.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • There’s the Afro-Asiatic family of languages spoken in northern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and parts of Western Asia, including Egyptian and Somali, plus Semitic languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic.
    — Martha Barnette august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025

Arabic

2 of 2 adjective
  • Swagg Man did seem to have the French and Arabic youth beat down.
    — Marc Wortman, Rolling Stone, 2023-06-17
  • In Arabic folklore, a ghoul is an evil spirit that robs graves and feeds on corpses.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 2023-05-06
  • The post added an Arabic turn of phrase used on birthdays and holidays.
    — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 2023-11-12
  • The name Sahara itself comes from the Arabic word for desert.
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 2024-02-05
  • The Arabic media seemed to buy the act, said Milshtein.
    — Ruth Marks Eglash, Fox News, 2023-11-27
  • Haboob is an Arabic word for a violent dust storm or sandstorm.
    — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Mother advised me not to go outside and play after my Arabic lesson.
    — Mohammed Naseehu Ali, The New Yorker, 2024-03-25
  • Henna is an Arabic word that refers to a plant natively found in Asia and Africa.
    — Manal Aman, Good Housekeeping, 2023-04-19
  • But entire blocks of Rimal, Arabic for ‘sands’, have already been destroyed.
    — Sam Dagher, Fortune, 2023-10-14
  • Alerts come in English, Spanish, Arabic, and Bangla.
    — Andrea May Sahouri, Freep.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • But anyone keeping a close eye on the many moving parts of the Arabic film scene right now knows that the unpredictable can very much happen.
    — Becky Lucas, The Hollywood Reporter, 2023-05-17
  • There are more than 12 collections — many pieces have Arabic names thought to empower the wearer.
    — Mariah Thomas, goodhousekeeping.com, 2023-06-01
  • The history of the mint julep cocktail The mint julep got its start as an Arabic drink made with water and rose petals dubbed the julab.
    — Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 2023-05-05
  • The holiday is Arabic for the celebration of breaking the fast.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 2024-04-10
  • Across each episode, Pada hears a new Arabic word that will eventually help fight the monster in the story.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2023-04-15
  • In the lower west side of Manhattan were some of the greatest poets and writers that the Arabic speaking world has known.
    — Sarah Khan, Condé Nast Traveler, 2024-04-05
  • Drake added some more ink to his face recently, as seen in pictures over the weekend in which some Arabic script was spotted above the rapper’s right eyebrow.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 2023-11-20
  • But a closer look revealed that Gigante was right: There were both Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions in the bronze.
    — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 2024-03-04
  • Classic Arabic songs from artists like Nagat El-Sagheera further intensify the sense of nostalgia and a bygone era.
    — Ed Meza, Variety, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Its Arabic-language army spokersperson has urged the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians still in Gaza City to flee south, but only tens of thousands have done so.
    — Wafaa Shurafa, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
  • In 2009, the Israeli education minister banned the use of the Arabic term in Israeli textbooks.
    — Maha Nassar, The Conversation, 2023-05-11
  • Al Jazeera confirmed that the outlet's Arabic correspondent, Anas al-Sharif, has been killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza City.
    — Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Aug. 2025
  • The group was founded in the 1980s and named after an Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement.
    — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 2023-10-10
  • Multiple layers of architectural history can be seen throughout the cathedral as it has been transformed a number of times by Byzantine, Arabic, and Norman settlers.
    — Michele Becker, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2025
  • In another case, a man captured video of his delivery driver as he was detained just minutes away, arrested by officers after the Arabic speaker was apparently unable to answer questions posed by officers.
    — Mike Lillis, The Hill, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Salem al-Rayes, a journalist in Gaza for Arabic language news sites, was displaced from his home during the war, giving up most of his personal belongings, like other Palestinians in Gaza.
    — Aya Batrawy, NPR, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Its announcement follows similar moves by Abu Dhabi and Qatar to launch Arabic-language LLMs in a bid to position themselves as rival centers for AI.
    — Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • In a report published this month, the Arabic-language Syria TV revealed that the Russian military has taken steps to strengthen its presence in Northeast Syria’s Qamsihli Airport.
    — Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Among them was prominent Arabic correspondent and frontline news reporter Anas al-Sharif, who — alongside Bisan Owda — received Amnesty International’s Human Rights Defender Award in December of last year.
    — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Her translations of Arabic poems have appeared in World Literature Today, Protean Magazine, Mizna, Nimrod, ArabLit Quarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Asymptote among others.
    — Huda Fakhreddine august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025

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