Were Phoenicians considered Arabs

Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient Canaan, with its heartland along the coastal region of modern day Lebanon. Phoenician civilization was an enterprising maritime trading culture that spread across the Mediterranean.

They were not considered Arabs for their language, customs…and much more. They spoke Phoenician language. They actually had Greek origins: The name Phoenician, through Latin punicus, comes from Greek phoinix, often suggested as “Tyrian purple, crimson; murex” (from phoinos “blood red”). Professor Michael Astour argues that phoinix is in fact not Greek and not from phoinos, but that it is a West Semitic loanword sourced probably “among the very people who were famous as crimson and purple dyers and whom the Greeks called Phoinikes”. As mentioned above, Phoenicia in Latin is ‘Punicus’, therefore, Rome’s wars with Carthage (a former province of Phoenicia) are called the Punic wars.