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bedouin

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈbɛd.(ə.)wɪn/
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  • CMU ARPABET: B EH1 D OW0 AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: B EH1 D UW0 IH2 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 3: B EH1 D AH0 W AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Alternative letter-case form of Bedouin

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A member of nomadic Arab tribes dwelling in the desert.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

a member of a nomadic tribe of Arabs

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Beduin

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: Arab, Arabian, nomad

History

Etymology

From Old French beduin (compare French bédouin), from Arabic بَدَوِيِّين (badawiyyīn), plural of بَدَوِيّ (badawiyy), from collective noun بَدْو (badw, “nomads”).

Across languages

Translations

67 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: beduin — desert-dweller
  • Arabic: بَدَوِيّ (badawiyy) — desert-dweller
  • Arabic: بَدْو (badw) — desert-dweller
  • Arabic: بدوي (badawi) — desert-dweller
  • Arabic: بدو (badu) — desert-dweller
  • Armenian: բեդվին (bedvin) — desert-dweller
  • Azerbaijani: bədəvi — desert-dweller
  • Bashkir: бәҙүән (bəźwən) — desert-dweller
  • Bengali: বেদুঈন (beduin) — desert-dweller
  • Bulgarian: бедуи́н (beduín) — desert-dweller
  • Catalan: beduí — desert-dweller
  • Chinese Mandarin: 貝都因人 /贝都因人 (bèidūyīn rén) — desert-dweller
  • Danish: beduin — desert-dweller
  • Dutch: bedoeïen — desert-dweller
  • Faroese: beduinur — desert-dweller
  • Finnish: beduiini — desert-dweller
  • French: Bédouin — desert-dweller
  • French: Bédouine — desert-dweller
  • Georgian: ბედუინი (beduini) — desert-dweller
  • German: Beduine — desert-dweller
  • German: Beduinin — desert-dweller
  • Greenlandic: beduini — desert-dweller
  • Hebrew: בדואי (bedu'i) — desert-dweller
  • Hindi: बेडुइन (beḍuin) — desert-dweller
  • Hindi: बद्दू (baddū) — desert-dweller
  • Hungarian: beduin — desert-dweller
  • Indonesian: badui — desert-dweller
  • Irish: Beidiúnach — desert-dweller
  • Italian: beduino — desert-dweller
  • Italian: beduina — desert-dweller
  • Japanese: ベドウィン (bedowin) — desert-dweller
  • Kazakh: бәдәуй (bädäui) — desert-dweller
  • Kazakh: бәдеуи (bädeui) — desert-dweller
  • Korean: 베두인 (bedu'in) — desert-dweller
  • Northern Kurdish: bedewî — desert-dweller
  • Kyrgyz: бедуин (beduin) — desert-dweller
  • Malay: badwi — desert-dweller
  • Norwegian Bokmål: beduin — desert-dweller
  • Odia: ବେଦୁଇନ୍ (beduin) — desert-dweller
  • Pannonian Rusyn: бедуин (beduin) — desert-dweller
  • Pannonian Rusyn: бедуїн (bedujin) — desert-dweller
  • Pashto: بدوي (badawí) — desert-dweller
  • Iranian Persian: بَدَوی (badavi) — desert-dweller
  • Iranian Persian: اَعْرابی (a'râbi) — desert-dweller
  • Polish: beduin — desert-dweller
  • Polish: beduinka — desert-dweller
  • Portuguese: beduíno — desert-dweller
  • Portuguese: beduína — desert-dweller
  • Romanian: beduin — desert-dweller
  • Russian: бедуи́н (beduín) — desert-dweller
  • Serbo-Croatian: беду̀ӣн — desert-dweller
  • Serbo-Croatian: bedùīn — desert-dweller
  • Slovak: beduín — desert-dweller
  • Spanish: beduino — desert-dweller
  • Spanish: beduina — desert-dweller
  • Swedish: beduin — desert-dweller
  • Tagalog: Bedwino — desert-dweller
  • Tajik: бадавӣ (badavi) — desert-dweller
  • Tatar: бәдәви (bädäwi) — desert-dweller
  • Thai: เบดูอิน — desert-dweller
  • Turkish: bedevi — desert-dweller
  • Ottoman Turkish: بدوی (bedevi) — desert-dweller
  • Ukrainian: бедуї́н (bedujín) — desert-dweller
  • Urdu: بَدَوی (badavī) — desert-dweller
  • Urdu: اَعْرابی (a'rābī) — desert-dweller
  • Uyghur: بەدەۋى (bedewi) — desert-dweller
  • Uzbek: badaviy — desert-dweller