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Sherarat|ʃɛrəˈrɑːt|
Also Shararat, Shererat.
[Arab.]
(A member of) a nomadic tribe of northern Saudi Arabia. Also attrib.
1830J. L. Burckhardt Notes on Bedouins & Wahábys 17 El Sherárát, in the sandy plain S. of the Akabe el Shamye and eastward of the Hadj route. Their numbers are considerable, and all are Wahabys. Ibid., South of the Sherárát on the E. of the Hadj road, as far as the vicinity of Mekka, the whole country is inhabited by Aenezes. 1875Encycl. Brit. II. 247/2 Thirdly, in the northern desert, the Howeytat and Sherarat, comparatively small and savage tribes. 1888C. M. Doughty Travels in Arabia Deserta I. iii. 57 Upon the other hand are..low heights much more distant, in the Sherarát nomad country. 1917T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1938) 234 The Arab losses in the fight came to two killed (a Rualla and a Sherarat) and several wounded. 1955H. St. J. Philby Sa‘udi Arabia iii. 90 ‘Abdul-‘Aziz now [in 1798] switched his offensive to the north: sending..the Amin of Buraida, to raid the Shararat on the Syrian border with telling effect. |