arabischer

Arabischer is the inflected form of the German adjective arabisch, used to describe nouns that relate to Arabs or to the Arabic language and culture. It functions as an attributive adjective and appears in a range of contexts, such as arabischer Staat (Arab state), arabischer Kalender (Islamic calendar), or arabische Schriftsteller (an Arabic writer, masculine noun in plural or feminine form as appropriate). The form changes according to gender, number, case, and the presence of a definite article.

Declension notes help with correct usage. For masculine singular:

- Nominative: der arabische Staat; or bare: arabischer Staat

- Genitive: des arabischen Staates

- Dative: dem arabischen Staat

- With indefinite article or no article, the ending adapts to standard strong/weak patterns, yielding arabischer Staat or der arabische Staat in common phrases.

For feminine singular: arabische Schule; for neuter singular: das arabische Buch; plural: arabische Staaten (die arabischen Staaten in the definite plural). The endings follow the regular German adjective declension system.

Etymology and relation to language. The adjective arabisch is formed from the noun Arab with the suffix -isch, designating relation to Arabs or to the Arabic language. The root Arab ultimately derives from the ethnonym Arab, with cognates in several languages. In German, arabisch is distinct from Arabisch, the name of the language, although the two terms are closely related in meaning.

Usage notes. Arabischer is neutral and common in encyclopedic or descriptive writing. It should not be confused with the proper noun usage of Arabisch as the language designation; instead, it serves to modify masculine nouns and agrees with grammatical case and number. In phrases like Arabischer Frühling (Arab Spring), it appears as part of standard descriptive terminology.