Maghreb

Contents

EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• Maghrib

EtymologyEdit

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

Proper nounEdit

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 notesEdit

As the name of a region, construed with "the": the Maghreb

AntonymsEdit

• Levant

Related termsEdit

• Maghrebi

TranslationsEdit

region in Africa

• 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)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馬格里布, 马格里布 (Mǎgélǐbù)

• 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: मग़रेब (maġreb)

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

  Roman: Mexrib (ku)

• Malay: Maghreb
• Persian: مغرب عربی‎‎ (mağreb 'arabi), مغرب‎‎ (fa) (mağreb)
• Portuguese: Magrebe m
• Russian: Магри́б (ru) m (Magríb)
• Spanish: Magreb (es) m
• Tatar: Мәгъриб (Mäğrib)
• Turkish: Mağrip (tr)
• Ukrainian: Магри́б m (Mahrýb)
• Urdu: مغرب‎‎ (magreb)

AnagramsEdit

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