1. bedouin - Noun
2. bedouin - Adjective
One of the nomadic Arabs who live in tents, and are scattered over Arabia, Syria, and northern Africa, esp. in the deserts.
Pertaining to the Bedouins; nomad.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will die a martyr. Muammar Gaddafi
Like most dictators, Col Gaddafi detests the metropolis. His vision of Libya is a kind of Bedouin romantic medievalism, suspicious of universities, theatres, galleries and cafes, and so monitors the cities' inhabitants with paranoid suspicion. Hisham Matar
It has been said that the Bedouin Arab is a parasite that lives on the camel, and this to a great extent is true. Cyrus H. Gordon
I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all this music. My father was very close friends with one of the Bedouin tribes, so I would always go there, to weddings, and I was always very fascinated by that music. Maya Beiser
The palate is as dry as the sandal of a Bedouin. Finnish Proverb
According to a contemporary account by theologian, Sheikh Yusuf Al Bahrani, in an unsuccessful attempt by the Persians and their Bedouin allies to take back Bahrain from the Kharijite Omanis, much of the country was burnt to the ground. Source: Internet