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Maghrebi

American  
[muhg-ruh-bee] / ˈmʌg rə bi /
Or Maghribi

noun

  • Maghrebis,
    plural
  • Maghrebi
    plural
  1. a native or inhabitant of the Maghreb.

  2. any of the dialects of Arabic spoken in the Maghreb.


adjective

  1. of or relating to the Maghreb, its people, or their language.

Maghrebi British  
/ ˈmʌɡrəbɪ /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the Maghreb region of NW Africa or its inhabitants

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of the Maghreb

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Look at the growing numbers of people ofAfrican or Maghrebi origin who are now serving in the police - many more than were visible in 2005.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2023

Rome, on the other hand, needed a great deal from the Maghrebi interior, including grain and olive oil to feed the capital’s growing urban population.

From Textbooks Apr. 19, 2023

For some, like the post-rock musician Anas Maghrebi, who brought his three drum kits on the boat across the Atlantic, their vocation is a spiritual life jacket of sorts.

From New York Times Jun. 21, 2022

He rose to prominence as the lead singer of Arabic-language group Carte de Séjour, which blended Western punk rock with Algerian Maghrebi music.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2018

One, the Haji Mukhtar, was a Maghrebi from Fez: an expatriation of forty years had changed his hissing Arabic as little as his "rocky face."

From First Footsteps in East Africa by Sir Richard Francis Burton

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