Middle Easternize

verb

To render something Middle Eastern in character.

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Meanings

verbMiddle Easternize (third-person singular simple present Middle Easternizes, present participle Middle Easternizing, simple past and past participle Middle Easternized)

present singular third person Middle Easternizes · participle present Middle Easternizing · participle past Middle Easternized · past Middle Easternized · alternative Middle Easternise

  1. transitiveTo render something Middle Eastern in character.

    Just as Muslim Spain Europeanized the Jews of the Middle East, Israel must Middle Easternize European Jews.

    2006 Ali Khan, A theory of international terrorism [electronic resource], p 359
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    Furthermore, by bringing the Eritrean issue into the Arab League it tried to Middle-Easternize the Eritrean issue and, by extension, the Nile one.

    2004 Kinfe Abraham, Nile dilemmas: hydropolitics and potentials conflict ... - Page 107

    Most scholars as a result simply continue to Middle Easternize the Middle East, repeating by implication the old East and West of earlier writing.

    2006, Steven Salaita, The Holy Land in Transit, vii

Origin

From Middle Eastern + -ize.

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APA

Middle Easternize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Middle%20Easternize

MLA

“Middle Easternize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Middle%20Easternize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Middle Easternize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Middle%20Easternize.

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