bedouin

See also: Bedouin and bédouin

English

Alternative forms

• Bedouin, Bedu
• Beduin (dated)

Etymology

From Old French beduin (compare French bédouin), from Arabic بَدَوِيِّين (badawiyyīn), plural of بَدَوِيّ (badawiyy), from collective noun بَدْو (badw, “nomads”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛd.wɪn/

Noun

bedouin (plural bedouins)

1. A member of nomadic Arab tribes dwelling in the desert.

Derived terms

• bedouinism
• bedouinization
• bedouinize

 

Translations

desert-dweller

• Albanian: beduin m
• Arabic: بَدَوِيّ (ar) m (badawiyy), (collective): بَدْو m pl (badw)

  South Levantine Arabic: بدوي m (badawi), (collective): بدو m pl (badu)

• Armenian: բեդվին (hy) (bedvin)
• Azerbaijani: bədəvi
• Bashkir: бәҙүән
• Bengali: বেদুঈন (beduin)
• Bulgarian: бедуи́н m (beduín)
• Catalan: beduí m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貝都因人／贝都因人 (bèidōuyīn rén)

• Danish: beduin (da) c
• Dutch: bedoeïen (nl) m
• Faroese: beduinur m
• Finnish: beduiini (fi)
• French: Bédouin (fr) m, Bédouine (fr) f
• Georgian: ბედუინი (beduini)
• German: Beduine (de) m, Beduinin (de) f
• Greenlandic: beduini
• Hebrew: בדואי (bedu'i)
• Hindi: बेडुइन m (beḍuin), बद्दू m (baddū)
• Hungarian: beduin (hu)
• Indonesian: badui
• Irish: Beidiúnach m
• Italian: beduino (it) m, beduina f
• Japanese: ベドウィン (bedowin)
• Kazakh: бәдәуи (bädäui)
• Korean: 베두인 (bedu'in)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: bedewî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: бедуин (ky) (beduin)
• Malay: badwi
• Norwegian: beduin m
• Odia: ବେଦୁଇନ୍ (or) (beduin)
• Pashto: بدوي (ps) m or f (badawí)
• Persian: بدوی (fa) (badavi)
• Polish: beduin (pl) m, beduinka (pl) f
• Portuguese: beduíno m, beduína f
• Romanian: beduin (ro) m
• Russian: бедуи́н (ru) m (beduín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: беду̀ӣн m

  Roman: bedùīn (sh) m

• Slovak: beduín m
• Spanish: beduino (es) m, beduina (es) f
• Swedish: beduin (sv)
• Tagalog: Bedwino
• Tajik: бадавӣ (tg) (badavi)
• Tatar: бәдәви (bädäwi)
• Turkish: bedevi (tr)
• Ukrainian: бедуї́н (uk) m (bedujín)
• Uyghur: بەدەۋى (bedewi)
• Uzbek: badaviy (uz)