Tuareg
Americannoun
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a Berber or Hamitic-speaking member of the Muslim nomads of the Sahara.
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the language of the Tuaregs, a Berber language of the Afroasiatic family.
noun
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a member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara
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the dialect of Berber spoken by this people
Etymology
Origin of Tuareg
From the dialectal Arabic word Ṭawārig
Example Sentences
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But a Tuareg man in a black trench coat approached Sereno's team on a motorcycle, claiming to know where "big bones" lay.
From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026
During their search, the team encountered a Tuareg man who offered to guide them on his motorbike deep into the Sahara, where he had seen enormous fossil bones.
From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026
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 • Oct. 10, 2025
The anger will have been strengthened by suggestions that some jihadist militants joined the Tuareg separatists in mounting the Tinzaouaten attack.
From BBC • Aug. 11, 2024
But in spite of the antagonism of the clan headman and of the older Tuareg warriors, the stories of the smiths continued to spread.
From Black Man's Burden by Reynolds, Mack
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