douar
See also: Douar
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From French douar, from Arabic دَوّار (dawwār).
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douar (plural douars)
- 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.’
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douar m (plural douaroù or douareier)
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douar m (plural douars)
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- “douar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.