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noun a member of a nomadic tribe of Arabs
originFrom Old French beduin (compare French bédouin), from Arabic بَدَوِيِّين (badawiyyīn), plural of بَدَوِيّ (badawiyy), from collective noun بَدْو (badw, “nomads”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0