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UK
/bˈɛduːɪn/
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[ US /ˈbɛdəwən, ˈbɛdoʊən, ˈbɛduˌɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈbɛdəwən, ˈbɛdoʊən, ˈbɛduˌɪn/ ]
NOUN
- a member of a nomadic tribe of Arabs
How To Use Bedouin In A Sentence
- Alongside Wadi Naam, a dusty Bedouin camp of 4,000 people, a toxic waste plant puffs away.
- Kordofan, whither it is imported from Darfour; and salt, from the salt mines of Boyedha; but this salt is dear, and the poor use as a substitute for it a brine, which they procure by dissolving in hot water lumps of a reddish coloured saline earth, of a bitterish, disagreeable taste, which they purchase from the Bedouins of the eastern desert; it seems to contain ochre and allum. Travels in Nubia
- Al-Araqib village peace activists called the demolitions an "act of war, such as is undertaken against an enemy," saying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Bedouins a threat, "giv (ing) legitimacy to the (ir) expulsion .... to Judaize it. SteveLendmanBlog
- He held forth on how Bedouin poetry shaped a moderate Islam in Libya, and he was just starting to explain the relevance to Libyan politics of the mathematical theory of complexity - it had to do with something called "flocking phenomena" - when his cellphone rang. The Guardian World News
- From the aeroplane's window is a night-time scene of sheer blackness, broken only by orange spots of the Bedouin fires.
- The Bedouin chieftain Zahir al-'Umar, who eventually carved out the equivalent of a fiefdom in northern Palestine, had gone to Damascus briefly as a youth and received some instruction there.
- It gives the history of all the travels in that region, and the chief works concerning it from the earliest time; the routes to Mount Sinai; the voyages of Hiram and Solomon through the Red Sea to India; an interesting discussion of the name Ophir; the different groups of mountains in this region; the Bedouin tribes of the peninsula, and of The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.
- Alexander summoned local Bedouin tribes to rebuild and repopulate Gaza as a fortress, this time under Macedonian control. Alexander the Great
- Fire-eaters and acrobats vied with the “Whirling Dervish” dances of Sufi ecstatics and the horseback shooting competitions of the thousands of curious Bedouin who had camped outside the city. Three Empires on the Nile
- The evil eye in Bedouin folk belief is tied to the fear of envy and jealousy in the eye of the beholder.