Meanings
- Pertaining to, or resembling, Arabic.
[...] need only be mentioned to arouse the interest of anyone at home in Arabistic studies.
1917, The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, page 3383 more examples
So far as concerns England, smallpox was first brought to it, not by the Saracen arms, but by Saracen pens. The earliest English treatise on medicine, the Rosa Anglica of Gaddesden, has the same chapter “De Variolis [et Morbillis]” as all the other medieval compends—in substance the same as in the earlier work of Gilbert, and in all the other Arabistic writings earlier or later.
1891, Charles Creighton, A History of Epidemics in Britain, page 446Even in the Arabistic literature there are references to Rescher and Sabra only here and then.
2013, Rescher Studies, page 223In this chapter, I have reviewed the ongoing dispute over the semantic opposition marked by the two basic verbal forms faʿala and yafʿalu in the Arabistic literature.
2016, Michal Marmorstein, “The Verb in Arabistic Literature”, in Tense and Text in Classical Arabic, page 39
Origin
From Arabist + -ic. By surface analysis, Arab + -istic.
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