bedouinize
Meanings
verb
- To cause something to adopt bedouin characteristics.
- In the Islamic Middle East, to cause agricultural or urban land to become bedouin-inhabited grazing land.
- To cause an Arabic dialect to adopt features traditionally typical of those dialects spoken by the bedouins.
Word forms
Etymology
From bedouin + -ize.
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