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Bedouin
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bedouin bédouin
English
Etymology
From en fro beduin (compare fr bédouin), from en ar بَدَوِيِّين, plural of ar بَدَوِيّ, from collective noun ar بَدْو nomads.
en ar ب د و
Pronunciation
en /ˈbɛd.(ə.)wɪn/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Bedouin.wav Southern England
Noun
A member of nomadic Arab tribes dwelling in the desert.
en w:National Geographic 1987 October 172 4 Women of Saudi Arabia Marianne Alireza 436 Motorized nomads, the Bedouin bands near Riyadh may swap their camels for pickup trucks and battery-powered TVs but prefer desert life to a house in town.
Alternative forms
en Bedu
en Beduin dated
en Bedawin
Derived terms
en bedouinize bedouinism bedouinization
Translations
desert-dweller
Albanian: sq beduin m
Arabic: ar بَدَوِيّ m, collective: ar بَدْو m-p
South Levantine Arabic: ajp بدوي m badawi, collective: ajp بدو m-p badu
Armenian: hy բեդվին
Azerbaijani: az bədəvi
Bashkir: ba бәҙүән
Bengali: bn বেদুঈন
Bulgarian: bg бедуи́н m
Catalan: ca beduí m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 貝都因人 bèidūyīn rén
Danish: da beduin c
Dutch: nl bedoeïen m
Faroese: fo beduinur m
Finnish: fi beduiini
French: fr Bédouin m, fr Bédouine f
Georgian: ka ბედუინი
German: de Beduine m, de Beduinin f
Greenlandic: kl beduini
Hebrew: he בדואי bedu'i
Hindi: hi बेडुइन m, hi बद्दू m
Hungarian: hu beduin
Indonesian: id badui
Irish: ga Beidiúnach m
Italian: it beduino m, it beduina f
Japanese: ja ベドウィン bedowin
Kazakh: kk бәдәуй, kk бәдеуи
Korean: ko 베두인
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr bedewî
Kyrgyz: ky бедуин
Malay: ms badwi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb beduin m
Odia: or ବେଦୁଇନ୍
Pannonian Rusyn: rsk бедуин m, rsk бедуїн m
Pashto: ps بدوي m f badawí
Persian:
Iranian Persian: fa-ira بَدَوی, fa-ira اَعْرابی
Polish: pl beduin m, pl beduinka f
Portuguese: pt beduíno m, pt beduína f
Romanian: ro beduin m
Russian: ru бедуи́н m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh беду̀ӣн m
Latin: sh bedùīn m
Slovak: sk beduín m
Spanish: es beduino m, es beduina f
Swedish: sv beduin c
Tagalog: tl Bedwino
Tajik: tg бадавӣ
Tatar: tt бәдәви
Thai: th เบดูอิน
Turkish: tr bedevi
Ottoman Turkish: ota بدوی bedevi
Ukrainian: uk бедуї́н m
Urdu: ur بَدَوی m, ur اَعْرابی m
Uyghur: ug بەدەۋى
Uzbek: uz badaviy
en Tribes