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bedouinizing

bedouinizing is the present participle and gerund of bedouinize.

Meaning of bedouinize

Verb

bedouinize (third-person singular simple present bedouinizes, present participle bedouinizing, simple past and past participle bedouinized)

  1. (transitive) In the Islamic Middle East, to cause agricultural or urban land to become bedouin-inhabited grazing land.
  2. (transitive) To cause an Arabic dialect to adopt features traditionally typical of those dialects spoken by the bedouins.

Questions about bedouinizing

What is bedouinizing the present participle and gerund of?
Bedouinizing is the present participle and gerund of bedouinize.

Words near bedouinizing in the dictionary

  1. bedouinism
  2. bedouinization
  3. bedouinize
  4. bedouinized
  5. bedouinizes
  6. bedouinizing
  7. bedouins
  8. Bedoulian
  9. bedoven
  10. Bedoy
  11. Bedoya

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