1. A member of a pre-Islamic nomadic people of the Syrian-Arabian deserts.
2. An Arab.
3. A Muslim, especially of the time of the Crusades.
[Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin Saracnus, from Late Greek Saraknos, ultimately from Arabic arq, east, sunrise; see rq in Semitic roots.]
r
-s
nus, from Late Greek Sarak
arq, east, sunrise; see 
rq in Semitic roots.]
a·cen
n
k) adj.
