Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A member of a Muslim, Berber-speaking people inhabiting the western and central Sahara and western Sahel of northwest Africa.
Wiktionary
- n. A traditionally nomadic Berber people of the Sahara
- n. Any of various Berber languages spoken by the Tuareg people
- n. A member of the Tuareg people
WordNet 3.0
- n. a member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara
- n. the dialect of Berber spoken by the Tuareg
Etymologies
- From Arabic الطوارق (al-Tawaariq, "the Tuareg"), from طارقة (Taariqa, "calamity"), from طرق (Táraqa, "to knock"). (Wiktionary)
- Arabic ṭawāriq. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The name Tuareg (singular, Targui) was given by the Arabs to the Berbers of the desert, and means "those forsaken of God".”
“The Tuareg are a nomadic people who have roamed the southern Sahara for centuries.”
“The government calls the Tuareg rebels armed bandits and drug runners who want the freedom to operate smuggling operations in the north.”
“The government calls the Tuareg armed bandits and drug runners who want the freedom to operate smuggling operations in the north.”
“An ethnic Tuareg, Assaleh has been part of the so-called Tuareg Contact Group which has been lobbying for Tuareg interests in the new Libya.”
“The Tuareg are a traditionally nomadic people who live in countries touching the Sahara Desert including Mali, Algeria, Niger and Libya.”
“Mr Dyer was taken hostage in a border area between Mali and Niger last January, along with three other European tourists, by a nomadic group called the Tuareg who live in the”
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“* Half a year ago Tolimar [1 blogged about a book] called Tuareg, which sounded very interesting, so I asked him to lend it to me, which he did in Edinburgh.”
“- the way the bass lines, provided by a man whose identity is swaddled inside a loose-fitting headdress, will rise to meet with the flecks of guitar that seem on the brink of blossoming into a kind of Tuareg surf music.”
“The group has deepened its links with criminal organizations and militant groups involved in local conflicts in places such as northern Mali, between the Malian government and the Tuareg tribe, and in Niger, where a similar situation exists.”
The Wall Street Journal: The Terrorists in Europe's Backyard
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