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Arabian person in attention-seeker? (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

omani

'arabian' is the definition.
(Omani is an example)

'person in attention-seeker?' is the wordplay.
'person' becomes 'man' (man is a kind of person).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'attention seeker?' becomes 'oi' (exclamation used to attract attention).
'man' inserted inside 'oi' is 'OMANI'.

(Other definitions for omani that I've seen before include "Gulf native" , "Inhabitant of Middle Eastern sultanate" , "coming from the Middle East" , "Speaker of Arabic" , "Asian" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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