Arabicized

Given Arabic form

Arabicized describes something that has been made Arabic in character—adopting Arabic language, customs, culture, or script.

The term applies to peoples, regions, or languages that came under Arab influence: Arabicized Berber populations, an Arabicized version of the text.

Also spelled Arabicised in British English.

linguistic

loanwords

Adopted foreign vocabulary

phonology · script · calque · adaptation · lexicon · morphology · assimilation · pronunciation · etymology · neologism

historical

conquest

Defeating and seizing control

Maghreb · Levant · Andalusia · Berber · Persian · conversion · colonization · empire · medieval · administration

cultural

influence

Power to affect others

adoption · heritage · assimilation · identity · fusion · acculturation · hybridization · syncretism · transmission · diffusion

naming

transliterated

Converted to another script

nomenclature · adapted · rendered · converted · form · variant · version · localized · modified · altered

Opposites
linguistic/cultural adaptation direction

ArabicizedLatinized

Made to resemble Roman language

Hellenized · Hispanicized · Germanized · Europeanized · Americanized

degree of transformation

Arabicizeduntranslated

Not converted between languages

preserved · unadapted · transliterated · unassimilated · retained

Family

Arabization, Arabic, Arab

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Rated G