Araby

[ar-uh-bee]

noun

Literary.

1. Arabia.

Araby

/ ˈærəbɪ /

noun

1. an archaic or poetic name for Arabia

Word History and Origins

Origin of Araby¹

1125–75; Middle English Arabye < Old French Arabie < Latin Arabia

Example Sentences

“We have worked for many years to demonstrate to the world that we are committed to the NPT and are willing to work within its framework, but unfortunately, this treaty has not been able to protect us or our nuclear program,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in an interview with Qatari news outlet Al Araby Al Jadeed this week.

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Khaled Meshaal, a Hamas official based in Qatar, told Al Araby television on Monday that seizing so many Israeli captives means that the group now “has what it needs to empty the prisons of all prisoners.”

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Jim Araby, the director of strategic campaigns for the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5, called the new law a “victory for all workers.”

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“No employee deserves to feel stigmatized and unsafe at work because of an outdated testing method,” Araby said.

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More than 2,000 of the 30,000 San Francisco Bay Area members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5 have been sickened and some have died from the coronavirus, said Jim Araby, the union’s director of strategic campaigns.

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