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Arab - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article |
 | | Jerome understood the term as the name of a people of a town which he described as being in the confines of the Arabians. |
 | | In Hebrew, the word `arav' has the same triconsonantal root as the root meaning "west" (ma`arav) "setting sun" or "evening" (ma`ariv, `erev). |
 | | The Assyrian forms may plausibly be borrowings from Aramaic or Canaanite of either root, referring to land lying to the west in the latter case; the latter possibility is perhaps strengthened by the later Greek use of the term Saracen, with the parallel meaning in Arabic of "Easterners" (sharqiyyûn.) |
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