Tuareg

American  

[twah-reg] / ˈtwɑ rɛg /

noun

1. a Berber or Hamitic-speaking member of the Muslim nomads of the Sahara.

2. the language of the Tuaregs, a Berber language of the Afroasiatic family.

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Tuareg British  

/ ˈtwɑːrɛɡ /

noun

1. a member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara

2. the dialect of Berber spoken by this people

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Etymology

Origin of Tuareg

From the dialectal Arabic word Ṭawārig

Example Sentences

He had popular support at the time - promising to deal with the long-running security crisis prompted by a separatist rebellion in the north by ethnic Tuaregs, which was then hijacked by Islamist militants.

From BBC

Also in Mali, some nationalist sections of political and military opinion were frustrated with the functioning of a 2015 peace agreement with former Tuareg separatists in the far north, overseen by UN troops.

From BBC

Fatima gripped her newborn tightly against her chest as the Tuareg woman queued beneath the scorching Mauritanian afternoon sun to register herself and her child as refugees.

From Barron's

Later he tried to build civil society in war-torn Iraq and Libya and was briefly kidnapped by Tuareg militiamen.

From The Wall Street Journal

He was at the helm of the Tuareg uprising against the Malian government in 2012 which sought to establish an independent state for the Tuareg people called Azawad.

From BBC