Tuareg
Americannoun
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a Berber or Hamitic-speaking member of the Muslim nomads of the Sahara.
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the language of the Tuaregs, a Berber language of the Afroasiatic family.
noun
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a member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara
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the dialect of Berber spoken by this people
Etymology
Origin of Tuareg
From the dialectal Arabic word Ṭawārig
Example Sentences
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But a Tuareg man in a black trench coat approached Sereno's team on a motorcycle, claiming to know where "big bones" lay.
From Barron's
During their search, the team encountered a Tuareg man who offered to guide them on his motorbike deep into the Sahara, where he had seen enormous fossil bones.
From Science Daily
He had popular support at the time - promising to deal with the long-running security crisis prompted by a separatist rebellion in the north by ethnic Tuaregs, which was then hijacked by Islamist militants.
From BBC
Also in Mali, some nationalist sections of political and military opinion were frustrated with the functioning of a 2015 peace agreement with former Tuareg separatists in the far north, overseen by UN troops.
From BBC
Fatima gripped her newborn tightly against her chest as the Tuareg woman queued beneath the scorching Mauritanian afternoon sun to register herself and her child as refugees.
From Barron's
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