Bedouin的词源

英文词源

Bedouin (n.)

c. 1400, from Old French bedüin (Modern French bédouin), from colloquial Arabic badawin "desert-dwellers," plural of badawi, from badw "desert, camp." The Arabic plural suffix was mistaken for part of the word. A word from the Crusades, it probably was lost in English and then reborrowed from French c. 1600. As an adjective from 1844.

中文词源

Bedouin：贝都因人

来自阿拉伯语，沙漠居住者。

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