bedouin

See also: Bedouin and bédouin

English

Alternative forms

Bedouin, Bedu
Beduin (dated)

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.wɪn/

Noun

bedouin (plural bedouins)

A member of nomadic Arab tribes dwelling in the desert.

Derived terms

bedouinism
bedouinization
bedouinize

Translations

desert-dweller

Albanian: beduin m
Arabic: بَدَوِيّ (ar) m (badawiyy), (collective): بَدْو m pl (badw)
South Levantine Arabic: بَدَوِيّ m (bádawi), (collective): بَدْو m pl (bádu)
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 (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 (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 (bedowin)
Kazakh: бәдәуи (bädäui)
Korean: 베두인 (bedu'in)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: bedewî (ku)
Kyrgyz: бедуин (ky) (beduin)
Malay: badwi
Norwegian: beduin m
Odia: ବେଦୁଇନ୍ (or) (beduin)
Pashto: بدوي (ps) m or f (badawí)
Persian: بدوی (fa) (badavi)
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

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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