Arabi is a domesticated breed of fat-tailed sheep from southwestern Iran, southern Iraq and northeastern Arabia and Egypt.
[1] The Arabi rams have horns and the ewes are polled (hornless).
This breed is the foundation stock for the Wooled Persian of South Africa.
[1] It is highly likely that the Arabi is descended from very ancient importations from Arabia across the narrow Bal-el-Mandeb Straits at the mouth of the Red Sea.
[3] The Arabi is usually white; however, black, brown and black-and-brown can occur.