Maghreb
English
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Etymology
From Arabic مَغْرِب (maḡrib, literally “where the sun sets, the West”), noun of place from غَرَبَ (ḡaraba, “to set, to go down”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Maghreb
- Northwest Africa, the region of Africa north of the Sahara and west of the Nile. The lands of the Maghreb are generally considered to be the coastal plains of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and western Libya.
Usage notes
As the name of a region, construed with "the": the Maghreb
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Translations
region in Africa
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