United Arab Emirates

name
/juˌnaɪ̯tɪd ˌaɹəb ˈɛmɪɹɪ(t)s/UK/jʊˌnaɪ̯ɾɪ̈d ˌɛɹəb ˈɛmɪɹɪts/US

Etymology

Calque of Arabic الْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَّة الْمُتَّحِدَة (al-ʔimārāt al-ʕarabiyya l-muttaḥida).

Definitions

  1. A country in West Asia in the Middle East. Capital

    A country in West Asia in the Middle East. Capital: Abu Dhabi. Largest city: Dubai.

    • The expected announcement is tied to his trip to the Middle East next week, where he’ll visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, the officials said.
    • Five of them — Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain — supply more than a third of the world’s urea, an important nitrogen fertilizer, and nearly a quarter of another one, ammonia.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for United Arab Emirates. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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