Bedouin

See also: bedouin and bédouin

English

Etymology

From Old French beduin (compare French bédouin), from Arabic بَدَوِيِّين (badawiyyīn), plural of بَدَوِيّ (badawiyy), from collective noun بَدْو (badw, “nomads”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛd.(ə.)wɪn/

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Noun

Bedouin (plural Bedouins)

1. A member of nomadic Arab tribes dwelling in the desert.
   • 1987, Marianne Alireza, “Women of Saudi Arabia”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, page 436:

     Motorized nomads, the Bedouin bands near Riyadh may swap their camels for pickup trucks and battery-powered TVs but prefer desert life to a house in town.

Alternative forms

• Bedu
• Beduin (dated)
• Bedawin

Derived terms

• bedouinism
• bedouinization
• bedouinize

Translations

desert-dweller

• Albanian: beduin m
• Arabic: بَدَوِيّ (ar) m (badawiyy), (collective): بَدْو m pl (badw)

  South Levantine Arabic: بدوي m (badawi), (collective): بدو m pl (badu)

• Armenian: բեդվին (hy) (bedvin)
• Azerbaijani: bədəvi
• Bashkir: бәҙүән (bəźwən)
• Bengali: বেদুঈন (beduin)
• Bulgarian: бедуи́н m (beduín)
• Catalan: beduí m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貝都因人 / 贝都因人 (bèidūyīn 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 (de) f
• Greenlandic: beduini
• Hebrew: בדואי (bedu'i)
• Hindi: बेडुइन m (beḍuin), बद्दू m (baddū)
• Hungarian: beduin (hu)
• Indonesian: badui
• Irish: Beidiúnach m
• Italian: beduino (it) m, beduina f
• Japanese: ベドウィン (ja) (bedowin)
• Kazakh: бәдәуй (bädäui), бәдеуи (bädeui)
• Korean: 베두인 (bedu'in)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: bedewî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: бедуин (ky) (beduin)
• Malay: badwi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: beduin m

• Odia: ବେଦୁଇନ୍ (or) (beduin)
• Pannonian Rusyn: бедуин m (beduin), бедуїн m (bedujin)
• Pashto: بدوي (ps) m or f (badawí)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: بَدَوی (badavi), اَعْرابی (a'râbi)

• Polish: beduin (pl) m, beduinka (pl) f
• Portuguese: beduíno m, beduína f
• Romanian: beduin (ro) m
• Russian: бедуи́н (ru) m (beduín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: беду̀ӣн m

  Latin: bedùīn (sh) m

• Slovak: beduín m
• Spanish: beduino (es) m, beduina (es) f
• Swedish: beduin (sv) c
• Tagalog: Bedwino
• Tajik: бадавӣ (tg) (badavi)
• Tatar: бәдәви (bädäwi)
• Thai: เบดูอิน
• Turkish: bedevi (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: بدوی (bedevi)

• Ukrainian: бедуї́н (uk) m (bedujín)
• Urdu: بَدَوی m (badavī), اَعْرابی m (a'rābī)
• Uyghur: بەدەۋى (bedewi)
• Uzbek: badaviy (uz)