Tuareg meaning

twä'rĕg'
A member of a traditionally Muslim, Berber-speaking people inhabiting the western and central Sahara and western Sahel of northwest Africa.
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A member of a Berber people of the W and central Sahara.
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The variety of Berber spoken by this people.
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A traditionally nomadic Berber people of the Sahara.
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Any of various Berber languages spoken by the Tuareg people.
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A member of the Tuareg people.
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Origin of tuareg

  • Arabic ṭawāriq
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Arabic الطوارق (al-Tawaariq, “the Tuareg"), from طارقة (Taariqa, “calamity"), from طرق (Táraqa, “to knock").
    From Wiktionary

Tuareg Sentence Examples

  • (6) A few Tuareg, another division of the Berbers, are among the nomads found in the Algerian Sahara.

  • Modern Tuareg have dark blue turbans to match their topcoats.

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  • 2 Tawareq (Tuareg) is the Arab designation of the Libyan or Desert Berbers.

  • The sultan of Air is to a great extent dependent on the chiefs of the Tuareg tribes inhabiting a vast tract of the Sahara to the north-west.

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