verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To cause something to adopt bedouin characteristics.; In the Islamic Middle East, to cause agricultural or urban land to become bedouin-inhabited grazing land. transitive
2. 2
   To cause something to adopt bedouin characteristics.; To cause an Arabic dialect to adopt features traditionally typical of those dialects spoken by the bedouins. transitive

Etymology

From bedouin + -ize.

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