Bedouin


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Bedouin /ˈbɛdʊɪn/ (also Beduin)
noun (pl. same) a nomadic Arab of the desert.
– origin from OFr. beduin, based on Arab. badawī, (pl.) badawīn ‘dwellers in the desert’, from badw ‘desert’.
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