Etymology

Sahrawi

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Today it means: Of, from, or pertaining to Western Sahara, the Sahrawi people or their language Hassaniya Arabic. Full definition →

Arabic صَحْرَاوِيّ
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The story

  1. Arabic · borrowed fromصَحْرَاوِيّ“of the desert”
  2. English todaySahrawi

From Arabic صَحْرَاوِيّ (ṣaḥrāwiyy, “of the desert”), from صَحْرَاء (ṣaḥrāʔ, “desert”).

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