douar

See also: Douar

English

Alternative forms

• dowar, duar

Etymology

From French douar, from Arabic دَوّار (dawwār).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈduːɑː/

Noun

douar (plural douars)

1. A camp or village of tents in a North African country.
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 34:

     he communicated by telephone instead of riding out by horseback, as in the good old days, to stay overnight in the various douars.

   • 1988, Robert Irwin, The Mysteries of Algiers, Dedalus, published 1993, page 16:

     ‘We burn their douars, we rape their women, we confiscate their crops, we carry out the necessary exemplary executions and we round up those who are left into what I can only call concentrations camps.’

Anagrams

• doura

Breton

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈduː.ar/

• audio

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Noun

douar m (plural douaroù or douareier)

1. earth, soil
2. Earth
3. land, country

Derived terms

• Douar an Tan
• douaroniezh

French

Etymology

From Arabic دَوَّار (dawwār).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dwaʁ/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

douar m (plural douars)

1. douar, duar

Further reading

• “douar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.