Dubai
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- proper noun
- /duˈbaɪ/
- Many tourists visit Dubai each year to experience its luxury shopping and modern architecture.
- Dubai skyline
- Dubai Airport
- emirate of Dubai
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Watch on YouTubeAnd this is gentleman from Dubai right here gang.
- And this is gentleman from Dubai right here gang.
- And I do really like the place, Dubai itself, I love it.
- And he cannot wait to go to Dubai as a result of that.
- And these long flights to LA from Dubai and Emirates.
- But caveat, driving in Dubai is really tough.
- And you accuse me of living in Dubai at well, that's true.
- I actually wanted to go out to Dubai to work and for a month.
- There's people in, you know, Dubai watching me.
- And so he's playing in this Dubai Open.
- So say we went to Saudi, not Saudi, Dubai, Abu Dhabi.
- Meaning I was in Dubai and that was the last time we spoke.
Examples
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Tens of thousands of Iranians living in Dubai tell their compatriots about the quality of life there.
Academic text (2007) -
But anyways, we've just arrived in Dubai and it is feeling warm.
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And I do really like the place, Dubai itself, I love it.
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I actually wanted to go out to Dubai to work and for a month.
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- Your parents are flying home from Dubai tonight.
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Send my wife and children to Dubai.
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The account's based in Dubai.
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I went sky diving in Dubai.
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Atlantis, Dubai, isn't a carbon copy of the original hotel on Paradise Island.
Academic text (2009) -
In Dubai, the economic crash has hit so hard that lndians who were living and working in Dubai Iost their jobs, and they just drove to the Dubai airport and abandoned their cars.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dubai comes from Arabic dubayy, probably from a root like daba meaning 'to creep' or 'move slowly'. People think this name described the slow little creek where traders landed, so the place began as a small port and later grew into the large, modern city we know today.