bedouinize

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To cause something to adopt bedouin characteristics.
  2. In the Islamic Middle East, to cause agricultural or urban land to become bedouin-inhabited grazing land.
  3. To cause an Arabic dialect to adopt features traditionally typical of those dialects spoken by the bedouins.

Word forms

bedouinize bedouinizes bedouinizing bedouinized

Etymology

From bedouin + -ize.

Related words

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