- pl. -·regs· or -·reg· a member of a Berber people of the W and central Sahara
- the variety of Berber spoken by this people
Origin of Tuareg
from Arabic taw?rig, plural of targw?: meaning unknownTuareg
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Tuareg
noun
pl. Tuareg, or Tua·regsA member of a traditionally Muslim, Berber-speaking people inhabiting the western and central Sahara and western Sahel of northwest Africa.
Origin of Tuareg
Arabic &tlowdot;awāriqTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Proper noun
Noun
(plural Tuaregs)
- A member of the Tuareg people
Origin
From Arabic الطوارق (al-Tawaariq, “the Tuareg"), from طارقة (Taariqa, “calamity"), from طرق (Táraqa, “to knock").
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