Mukhabarat
See also: mukhabarat
English
editEtymology
editFrom Arabic مُخَابَرَات (muḵābarāt), plural of مُخَابَر (muḵābar, “intelligence”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editMukhabarat (countable and uncountable, plural Mukhabarats)
- The secret police or intelligence forces in certain Arabic-speaking countries.
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 283:
- He was sallow, morose-looking, and wearing dark glasses indoors: a thoroughly bad sign. A secret-police or Mukhabarat type, bored and resentful and hard to shake.
- A member of such an organization.