Shammarn.
/ˈʃamɑː/ (A member of) a Bedouin tribe originating in the Nafud desert of Saudi Arabia. Also attributive or as adj.
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1911 G. Bell Let. 14 Apr. (1927) I. xii. 300 Now the Shammar are Beda; only the Shammar and the Anazeh are real Bedawin, the others are just Arabs.
1916 T. E. Lawrence Home Lett. (1954) 311 There is a very heady old Shammar, and an Aneyze.
1929 F. Stark Let. 24 Nov. (1974) i. 215 He..has now suggested a visit to one of the Shammar chiefs up the Tigris.
1959 W. Thesiger Arabian Sands iii. 54 In Syria I had seen the Shammar migrating, a whole people on the move, covering the desert with their herds.
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