Bedun.adj.
/ˈbɛduː/ (Of or pertaining to) a Bedouin.
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Bedouinc1400
Koreishite1708
Sherari1888
Bedu1912
the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Arabia > [adjective]
Scenite1600
Arabic1611
Howeitat1838
Bedouin1844
Sherari1888
Rwala1918
Bedu1959
1912 T. E. Lawrence Home Lett. (1954) 188 Egypt is not to be ranked with Syria for a moment: you have only to think of fellahin—and ours are Bedu.
1917 T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1938) 234 The Bedu had their own food with them in their saddle bags.
1940 F. Stark Winter in Arabia iii. 15 We..took with us a bedu wounded in the foot by stones.
1959 Listener 19 Nov. 893/2 The vanishing life of his Bedu friends.
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