bedouinize
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bedouinize (third-person singular simple present bedouinizes, present participle bedouinizing, simple past and past participle bedouinized)
- (transitive) To cause something to adopt bedouin characteristics.
- (history) In the Islamic Middle East, to cause agricultural or urban land to become bedouin-inhabited grazing land.
- (linguistics) To cause an Arabic dialect to adopt features traditionally typical of those dialects spoken by the bedouins.