Berbers

NOUN
  1. an ethnic minority descended from Berbers and Arabs and living in northern Africa
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How To Use Berbers In A Sentence

  • Today's carpets and rugs come in a wide range of options, from rich cut piles and patterned berbers to fabric-inspired braids, that work well with today's favorite looks.
  • In the early eighth century, a Muslim army of Arabs and North African Berbers conquered much of the Iberian Peninsula.
  • Maronites, Copts, Berbers, Kurds and Africans as well as Arabs and Muslims inhabit a miscellany of lands from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf and from the Saharan desert to the foothills of Anatolia.
  • From the earliest period known to history, Morocco has been inhabited by the Berbers (whence the name Barbary). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
  • The name Tuareg (singular, Targui) was given by the Arabs to the Berbers of the desert, and means "those forsaken of God". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • Hamitic ethnically, the Copts are distant cousins of the Berbers in North Africa. The Coming Revolution
  • Four Berbers at the farther end were playing cards, and two Arabs that were chained to a column near the door squatted on the ground with a battered old draughtboard between them. The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable
  • After the end of the Punic Wars, the Berbers were conquered by the Romans, the Byzantines, and the Vandals, but were able to maintain their cultures across the centuries. The Coming Revolution
  • The Moors however were all Caucasian peoples - the first ones were Hamito-Semitic Arabs and Berbers; many of the latter-day ones were of Turkic, Iranian and Circassian stock The Turks, in fact, eventually took over the whole Arab Empire. Languagehat.com: ARABIC WORDS IN SPANISH.
  • In Morocco's Atlas Mountains, Berbers create a mythic monstrous figure called the Bilmawn, a man dressed in the skins of a sheep slaughtered on the first day of the Feast of the Sacrifice.
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