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
The go-betweens included Tuareg leader Ahmed ag Bibi, who once fought in an Islamist militant group under Iyad ag Ghali, a former rock ‘n’ roller who now leads JNIM.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
The country has been deep in crisis since at least late 2011, when northern ethnic Tuareg separatists and radical Islamist factions allied to them, took over Timbuktu, Gao and other towns across the north.
From BBC • Sep. 20, 2024
There were possibly no more than a hundred Tuareg in all in the nomad encampment of goat leather tents when the solar powered hovercraft drew up.
From Border, Breed Nor Birth by Reynolds, Mack
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