ARABISM, Ananismus, an idiom or manner of speaking peculiar to the Arabs, or the Arabic language. See IDIOM and ARABIC. R. Martiz maintains that the letter 'aleph' sometimes expresses an oath, in Hebrew as well as in Arabic: Abenezra, a perfect master of Arabic, and who makes great use of it to explain Hebrew; does not reject the sentiment, nor yet much approve it: he contents himself merely to rehearse it, which, for so zealous a partisan of Arabisms, is enough to show that he had no great opinion of it. Father Scuciet.
ARABISM
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