Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A member of a people living primarily as pastoral nomads in the area between the Nile River and the Red Sea.
  • noun The Cushitic language of the Beja.

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  • proper noun An ethnic group found along the Horn of Africa.
  • proper noun The language of the afore mentioned people.

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Examples

  • - Media interested in listening to the webcast, participating in the post conference media call and/or scheduling an interview are asked to call Beja Rodeck at 416 867-3996.

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  • Instead of being congratulated on Penn State's stellar academics, Beja is hearing all about the sex-abuse scandal that brought down the university's president and football coach in November.

    Selling Students on Penn State Anjali Athavaley 2012

  • Winning acceptance to Penn State hasn't exactly made Maddie Beja the envy of her suburban Chicago high school.

    Selling Students on Penn State Anjali Athavaley 2012

  • Beja, in southern Portugal, received 57mm of rain over a 12 hour period.

    Weatherwatch: Typhoon rattled across Louisiana 2011

  • So you don't have the humiliation and it's good for everyone, said Jean-Philippe Beja, a China scholar at the Paris-based Center for International Studies and Research and a longtime friend of Liu.

    Liu Xiaobo, Top Nobel Prize Contender, Languishes In Chinese Prison AP 2010

  • "The reputation of Penn State has taken such a hit lately," said Beja, president of the senior class at Hinsdale Central High School, adding that the sex-abuse scandal is a strike against Penn State as she weighs her other options.

    Selling Students on Penn State Anjali Athavaley 2012

  • Within Sudan is a dizzying collection of almost 600 often feuding tribes speaking 400 different languages spread over a vast area: northern, Arabic-speaking Muslims and Nubians; ferocious Beja from the Red Sea Coast "Fuzzy-Wuzzies" to the British; wild Bagarra nomads from Darfur; and Stone Age tribes from the upper Nile.

    Eric Margolis: Sudan Faces an Earthquake Eric Margolis 2011

  • According to Ibrahim Ahmed, the U.S.-based representative of the Beja people who leads the Beja Organization for Human Rights and Development, it became clear that the eastern part of Sudan, with Port Sudan as the main urban center, had become a target for ethnic cleansing, with the goal of removing the native people and settling Arab communities funded by the regime and oil-producing governments in the region.

    The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010

  • When the government arrested several key Beja Congress leaders in March 2006, it poured gasoline on the fire.

    The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010

  • “Khartoum is arguing that the Beja people and their presence along the coast of Sudan are obstructing the Red Sea from becoming a fully Arab lake.”

    The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010

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