bedouin

See also: Bedouin and bédouin

English

Etymology

From Old French beduin (compare French bédouin), from بَدَوِين (badawīn), colloquial plural of بَدَوِيّ‎ (badawiyy), from بَدْو‎ (badw, “desert, camp”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbɛd.wɪn/

Noun

bedouin (plural bedouins)

A desert-dweller, especially a member of a nomadic Arab desert tribe.

Translations

desert-dweller

Albanian: beduin m
Arabic: بَدَوِيّ‎ (ar) m (badawiyy), (collective) بَدْو‎ m pl (badw)
Armenian: բեդվին (hy) (bedvin)
Azerbaijani: bədəvi
Bashkir: бәҙүән (bäðüän)
Bengali: বেদুঈন (beduīn)
Bulgarian: бедуи́н m (beduín)
Catalan: beduí m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 貝都因人, 贝都因人 (bèidōuyīn rén)
Danish: beduin (da) c
Dutch: bedoeïen (nl) m
Faroese: beduinur m
Finnish: beduiini (fi)
French: Bédouin (fr) m, Bédouine (fr) f
Georgian: ბედუინი (beduini)
German: Beduine (de) m, Beduinin f
Greenlandic: beduini
Hebrew: בדואי‎ (bedu'i)
Hindi: बेडुइन m (beḍuin), बद्दू m (baddū)
Hungarian: beduin (hu)
Indonesian: badui
Interlingue: beduin
Irish: Beidiúnach m
Italian: beduino (it) m, beduina f
Japanese: ベドウィン (bedowin)

Kazakh: бәдәуй (bädäwy)
Korean: 베두인 (bedu-in)
Kurdish:
Kurmanji: bedewî (ku)
Kyrgyz: бедуин (ky) (beduin)
Malay: badwi
Norwegian: beduin m
Pashto: بدوي‎ (ps) m or f (badawí)
Persian: بدوی‎ (fa) (badavi)
Polish: beduin (pl) m
Portuguese: beduíno m, beduína f
Romanian: beduin (ro) m, beduini m pl
Russian: бедуи́н (ru) m (beduín)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: беду̀ӣн m

Roman: bedùīn (sh) m
Slovak: beduín m
Spanish: beduino (es) m, beduina (es) f
Swedish: beduin (sv)
Tagalog: Bedwino
Tajik: бадавӣ (tg) (badavī)
Tatar: бәдәви (bädäwi)
Turkish: bedevi (tr)
Ukrainian: бедуї́н (uk) m (bedujín)
Uyghur: بەدەۋى‎ (bedewi)
Uzbek: badaviy (uz)

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