Maghreb

English

The Maghreb

Alternative forms

• Maghrib

Etymology

From Arabic مَغْرِب‎ (maḡrib, literally “where the sun sets, the West”), noun of place from غَرَبَ‎ (ḡaraba, “to set, to go down”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːɡɹɛb/

Proper noun

Maghreb

1. 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

Antonyms

• Levant
• Mashreq

Related terms

• Maghrebi

Translations

region in Africa

• Albanian: Magreb m
• Arabic: اَلْمَغْرِب‎ (ar) m (al-maḡrib), اَلْمَغْرِب اَلْعَرَبِيّ‎ m (al-maḡrib al-ʿarabiyy)
• Armenian: Մաղրիբ (Małrib)
• Azerbaijani: Məğrib
• Belarusian: Магры́б m (Mahrýb)
• Bengali: মাগরেব (magreb)
• Bulgarian: Магре́б m (Magréb)
• Catalan: Magrib m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馬格里布, 马格里布 (Mǎgélǐbù)

• Danish: Maghreb
• Dutch: Maghreb m
• Esperanto: Magrebo
• Finnish: Maghreb (fi)
• French: Maghreb (fr) m
• Georgian: მაღრიბი (maɣribi)
• German: Maghreb (de) n
• Greek: Μαγκρέμπ (el) (Magkrémp), Μπαρμπαριά f (Barmpariá)
• Hebrew: מגרב‎
• Hindi: मग़रिब m (maġrib), मग़रेब m (maġreb), मगरब (hi) m (magrab)

• Indonesian: Maghrib
• Italian: Magreb
• Japanese: マグリブ (Maguribu)
• Kazakh: Мағриб (Mağrïb)
• Korean: 마그레브 (Mageurebeu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Mexrib (ku)

• Malay: Maghreb
• Pashto: مغرب‎ m (maǧréb)
• Persian: مغرب عربی‎ (mağreb-e 'arabi), مغرب‎ (fa) (mağreb)
• Portuguese: Magrebe m
• Russian: Магри́б (ru) m (Magríb)
• Spanish: Magreb (es) m
• Tajik: Мағриб (Maġrib)
• Tatar: Мәгъриб (Mäğrib)
• Turkish: Mağrip (tr)
• Ukrainian: Магри́б m (Mahrýb)
• Urdu: مغرب‎ (ur) m (maġrib)
• Uyghur: مەغرىب‎ (meghrib)
• Uzbek: Magʻrib

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