arabicise

present singular third person arabicises · participle present arabicising · participle past arabicised · past arabicised

1. To make Arabic, as to customs, culture, pronunciation, spelling, or style.

   ... its name was arabicised into Bihrasīr ; while the other one in Kirmān was arabicised into Bardashīr.

   1930, Journal of the K.R. Cama Oriental Institute - Issues 17-24, page 94

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   ... these importations, continued by the successors of this prince and by the Mertnid dynasty, soon drove the Berber element into the mountains or absorbed and arabicised it.

   1936, Martijn Theodoor Houtsma, Sir Thomas Walker Arnold, René Basset, The encyclopaedia of Islām, page 590

   Despite the many problems a large part of cultural life was arabicised, including primary and secondary education and many arts faculties in universities, broacasting on radio and TV, new items in cinemas, public signs and the judicial system. But, all of these achievements notwithstanding, the centres of power and administration remained French-dominated.

   2013, Yasir Suleiman, Arabic Sociolinguistics: Issues and Perspectives, →ISBN, page 38

present singular third person Arabicises · participle present Arabicising · participle past Arabicised · past Arabicised

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of Arabicize