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Where does “beduin” come from?
beduin (Old French) comes from Arabic بَدَوِين, from Arabic بَدْو — desert, camp.
Ancestry of “beduin”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Arabic
بَدَوِين
—
2
Arabic
بَدْو
desert, camp
Words derived from “beduin”
bedouin
bedouinism
bedouinize
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