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

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

The junta had popular support when it took power, 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

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

Tuareg rebels, who sometimes fight alongside Islamist militants, destroyed half of the 40 armored vehicles in the convoy and killed dozens of fighters, according to European officials.

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