Saracenic

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Sar·a·cen

S0086800 (săr′ə-sən)n.1. A member of a pre-Islamic nomadic people of the Syrian and Arabian Deserts.2. A Muslim, especially of the time of the Crusades.
[Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin Saracēnus, from Late Greek Sarakēnos, ultimately from Arabic šarq, east, sunrise; see śrq in Semitic roots.]
Sar′a·cen′ic (-sĕn′ĭk) adj.