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Definition of Bedouin noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Bedouin

noun

/ˈbeduɪn/

/ˈbeduɪn/

(plural Bedouin)

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a member of an Arab people that traditionally lives in tents in the desert
Word Originfrom Old French beduin, based on Arabic badawī, (plural) badawīn ‘dwellers in the desert’, from badw ‘desert’.

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