Definitions
Etymologies
- From Arabic بَدَوِيّون (badawiyyūn), plural form of بَدَوِيّ (badawiyy). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The quicker they are riding camels again, sleeping in bedouin tents and gathering dung for a fire the better with me ….”
“By 1948, the population had risen to 1,900,000, of whom 68% were Arabs, and 32% were Jews (UNSCOP report, including bedouin).”
“I envisioned a cream muslin draped bedouin tent in the ladies' and a paneled nautical style library look for the men's complete with a vintage rowing boat hung from the ceiling.”
The Huffington Post: Martyn Lawrence-Bullard Interview On Fashion And Interior Design
“Perhaps the relation between his tendency to camp out in foreign countries and Libyan bedouin traditions, is an identity meaningful to him that he wants to share, particularly in light of the many bedouins killed in the colonial 1930s and the post colonial environment he grew up in.”
“A bedouin sheepherder can do this without the need for the scientific method or a testable hypothesis.”
“David Degner for The Wall Street Journal A bedouin watched the protests in Cairo from a house in the Sinai.”
“I recommend his A Shepherd's Journey: the story of Israel's first bedouin diplomat”
“But Israel and the JNF have a massive plan (Blueprint Negev) to make the Negev green with trees, and one of the planned forests is supposed to grow right where those el-Arakiv bedouin had the chutzpah to put their tents up.”
“It doesn't matter that the state has moved the el-Arakiv bedouin from place to place over and over again.”
“Another account tells us that the Prophet had stopped to rest at a bedouin camp, where a woman with an infant was baking bread over an open fire.”
The Huffington Post: William C. Chittick, Ph.D.: The Islamic Notion of Mercy
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bedouin’.
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Arabian Nights
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words found to be generally pleasing
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Man likes these words
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wunderkammer's Words
smarmy, bubkes, elucidate, togs, aeolian, carp, kibosh, bosky, ramshackle, mange, harpy, effervesce and 163 more...
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hedges's Words
wii, crepuscule, adumbrate, concatenation, sufi, qawwali, furry, riot, mellifluous, conspiracy, etymology, tea cozy and 369 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Valse's Words
fastidious, fervent, bellicose, personification, onomatopoeia, burly, concomitant, tempura, serendipity, pecuniary, foment, chum and 418 more...
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sfan
wan, citroen, aramaic, arabic, hebrew, mosque, oran, synagogue, anisette, almighty, blum, cremieux and 55 more...
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freshasspearmint's Words
spaniard, fantastic, tremendous, pachyderm, colloquial, sartorius, brouhaha, bourgogne, mandalay, lonelily, fortuitous, rhinoplasty and 35 more...
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redchuck's Words
diagetic, melungeon, palimpsest, y'all, fandango, corpuscule, dibble, bedouin, flanger, antediluvian, camphor, nadir and 69 more...
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Used in conversation
Words I had to look up because either A) I didn't know what they meant, or B) I wanted a more precise definition so I could argue on some obscure point.
cynical, androgyny, indignation, bedouin, mirthless, indiscriminate, pedantic, licentious, acquiesce, misanthropic, adroitly, glib and 15 more...
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