Arabize
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To make Arab; to give Arab traits to. transitive
"Iran was indeed Islamized, but it was not Arabized. Persians remained Persians. And after an interval of silence, Iran reemerged as a separate, different and distinctive element within Islam, eventually adding a new element even to Islam itself."
Example
More examples"Iran was indeed Islamized, but it was not Arabized. Persians remained Persians. And after an interval of silence, Iran reemerged as a separate, different and distinctive element within Islam, eventually adding a new element even to Islam itself."
Etymology
From Arab + -ize.