Maghreb
noun
the Arabic name for the NW part of Africa, generally including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and sometimes Libya.
Maghrib
-
a variation of
Maghreb.
Example Sentences
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When she tells her father that she is learning Maghrib ideas about acceptance in prison it seems disingenuous.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2021
The Santa Monica resident had arrived to attend sunset prayer, known as Maghrib.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2020
Two Berber groups, the Almoravids and the Almohads, founded empires that united the Maghrib under Muslim rule.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
By 670, Muslims ruled Egypt and had entered the Maghrib, the part of North Africa that is today the Mediterranean coast of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
It's worked up from the little water-colour I made outside El Maghrib.
From The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling
