How Arabia Got Its Name

Arabia is a land with a unique and ancient history, hosting some of the very first human settlements anywhere in the world. This extensive history is reflected in the land's very name: ARABIA. Today we're diving into how this name came about and what it can teach us about this amazing place!

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[ErnestJay]

Meanwhile Desert in arabic is "صحراء " or "Sahra" spell "sahara", it means Sahara desert is "Desert Desert"

[jmani]

i thank u for the use of the sounds of clicking on a keyboard or type writer. Its satisfying

[GabrielKakeKake]

3:43 I think only in the US they confuse Semitic with Jewish. In the rest of the world we don't. 😂 At least in Spain we are clear that Arabs and Hebrews are Semitic.

[Ostoraton]

Peace from the land of the desert the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Beautiful work.

[alwmob]

The Arabs have an origin in their language. I know this because it was in one of the Arabic language books (im a saudi with a long love for arabic litrature).
They say arabs called themselves arabs when their language became one in the paninsula, making the peoples understand each other as they previously had many languages. Tje word "Arab" in the arabic language means "express" as in express yourself. So, when they became able to express what they think to each other, they called it "expressing" (iirab) then anyone who can speek their language then they are expressors too! I.e. Arabs!

[khaledal-hashemi]

Atlas pro: so it all started from Syria. Yemen: am I a joke to you?

[zhen]

As an Arab from the Semitic peoples we are originally from Sam and lived in Yemen and we built the great dam of Marib but the dam collapsed after a while and the Arabs spread in the rest of the island near oases and wells until Islam appeared and ordered us to spread the religion and we invaded the Persian and Roman empire and we won over them and spread our language and religion

[herrpohlenzgarbino]

Wait, so Asia, (minus -ia) means
The land of the As?

[jnezurich]

"Arabia" is Arabic and not Latin! Arabic is a significantly older language than Latin. To use Latin to explain "Arabia" is... well..

[UNKNOWN-elvr]

انا عربي ومفتخر اني عربي اخوكم من السعودية

I am an Arab and proud of your brother from Saudi Arabia

[fadiestifani]

Salam from Syria to all our brothers in Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦💐🇸🇾

[is-haqal-sabiriy]

You used all other language to try to understand the word Arab except the Arabic language itself

[thatone]

Btw the pic at 5:34 was not Petra it was al ulla in Saudi Arabia

[aminebenz]

the root A-R-B عرب
in Arabic has many meanings, one of them is the mount :
عربة، أعرابية
and some scholars think they were called thus for mounting camels.
and it also means to express, "express his emotions" = يعرب عن مشاعره
the root is strangely linked to speaking and mounting.

[fgqvvvkaixed]

انا من الحجاز وكان سابقا عندما يذهب احد الي مكة المكرمة نقول فلان عرب اي اتجه الي وادي عربه العرب ينسبون الي الوادي الذي بناء فيه سيدنا ادم الكعبة وادي عرب والوادي يسافرمن الجبال الي البحر.. المسافر تعني عرب عندنا نحن العرب نقول فلان معرب اي امتك صفات العرب التي تميزه عن سائر الناس من حسن المنطق وفصاحة اللسان وجاء ذكر هذي الصفة في الحور في القران { إِنَّا أَنْشَأْنَاهُنَّ إِنْشَاء فَجَعَلْنَاهُنَّ أَبْكَارًا عُرُبًا }اي حسنات الكلام وتميزنا بهذا التميز عربي معرب عرب جاء ذكر هذي الصفه ايضاء في القران قال الله.{ إِنَّا أَنْزَلْنَاهُ قُرْآنًا عَرَبِيًّا لَعَلَّكُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ .وهنا ربط الله بين العقل واللغه لتميزها عن سائر اللغات ولله حكمة عندما انطق سيدنا اسماعيل بها وميزه عن سائر الامم وفي مكان مميز وهو في سن صغير لانها سوف تكون لغة اخر رساله سماويه الي الارض
هنا اسرار القران

[hkmyk]

thanks for these interesting new information to me, I want to add another possible theory:
Arabs named after a Man known as " يعرب بن قحطان" ( Ya'rub son of Qahtan).
it said that he was a grandson of the prophet Hud and great-grandson of Noah.
His descendant known as the Original Arabs (العرب العاربة), while the other Arabs - the descendants of Adnan son of Ishmael - are the Arabized Arabs (العرب المستعربة).
anyway, this separation is extremely old, Arabs have become something completely different now, some even says it became an identity defined by language, not by blood, so if you can speak Arabic well, you are already an ARAB ;)

[ryder]

You have made an arab happy, thank you.
I would love to see more video’s that include arabs.
Overall solid video and editing, keep up the great work

[thakaraashish]

Even before the historical time zone mentioned in this video, in ancient Hindu Sacred Texts there is a mention of ASHWA STHAN, (Sanskrit: Ashwa = Horse and Sthan = Land) which meant Land of Horses. There were many horses in that region

Even today Arabia is know for great quality Horses.

Nobody can deny that Arabia was known as ARBASTAN, which is nothing but a time lapsed distortion of the Sanskrit Conjoint Ashwa Sthan, it got deformed into ARBASTAN...and hence the name.

I suggest pls refer Indian Holy Scriptures like Srimad Bhagwatam and you shall know many such facts.

Remember: Indians believe in in World as One Family (vasudhaivkutumbakam)

Regards,
Ashish from India

[ukrainever]

Arabia extends all the way into turkey. Near dyar bakr, named after the ancient arabian tribe of bakr bin wael its not just saudi

[mGAARSNAL]

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Thank the algorithm, you just kind of popped up at random, as these things do.