bedouinize (English, verb)
expansion: bedouinize (third-person singular simple present bedouinizes, present participle bedouinizing, simple past and past participle bedouinized)
Senses:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: To cause something to adopt bedouin characteristics.
In the Islamic Middle East, to cause agricultural or urban land to become bedouin-inhabited grazing land.
tags: transitive
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To cause something to adopt bedouin characteristics.
To cause an Arabic dialect to adopt features traditionally typical of those dialects spoken by the bedouins.
tags: transitive
Forms:
form: bedouinizes
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bedouinizing
tags: participle
present
form: bedouinized
tags: participle
past
form: bedouinized
tags: past