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Howeitat|həʊweɪˈtɑːt|
Also Haueytat, Howeïtat, Huwaitat, Huweitat.
[Arab. (al-) Huwaytāt, Arab tribes in north-western Saudi Arabia.]
A. n. (A member of) a Bedouin tribe of northern Saudi Arabia.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people.
a1817J. L. Burckhardt Notes on Bedouins (1831) I. 29 El Haueytat..are about three hundred horsemen, but can furnish a large body of armed camel-drivers... In seasons of drought the Haueytat approach Gaza or Hebron. 1838J. R. Wellsted Trav. Arabia II. ix. 167 The Howeïtát Bedowins occupy the coast from Magnah to Jebel 'Antar. 1917T. E. Lawrence Let. 10 July (1938) 225 Sherif Nasir stayed in Kaf to enrol Rualla, Shererat and Huweitat for the Akaba expedition. 1926― Seven Pillars (1935) iii. xxx. 173 With his [sc. Feisal's] northern neighbours, the coastal Howeitat, he had already made a beginning. 1957H. St. J. Philby Forty Years in Wilderness v. 99 The tribes mentioned were Huwaitat..and some others. |