Talk:عرب

Persian
Is it true that in Persian Arab also means something like "rude"? Dari says so. Mallerd 17:25, 6 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I can't confirm this right now, but it wouldn't surprise me at all, considering that the Persians take great pride in their millennia-old civilisation and have always viewed the Arabs as uncouth, uncultured newcomers. Compare Anti-Arabism and Islamization of Iran for historical perspective. --Florian Blaschke 22:23, 1 October 2011 (UTC)