(n.) One of the nomadic Arabs who live in tents, and are scattered over Arabia, Syria, and northern Africa, esp. in the deserts.
(a.) Pertaining to the Bedouins; nomad.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Palestinian Bedouin family live in Az-Zayyem, inside Area C, farming goats and camels for milk.
(2) Before 1948, the Bedouin tribes lived and grazed their animals on much of the Negev, claiming ancestral rights to the land.
(3) She, and three other captives, were told that if they didn't pay $10,000 each within a few days, they would be sold to Bedouin traffickers in Sinai.
(4) When medium quality roughage was fed, Bedouin goats apparently consumed enough energy to sustain both maintenance and production, whereas Saanen goats consumed only enough to maintain very low production.
(5) An increase in dizygotic twinning in the whole population, largely due to an increase of rate in the Bedouin population was found.
(6) This is the first case of Mollaret's syndrome related to delivery, and also the first presentation in a Bedouin.
(7) The past year has seen a shift in agenda from the grievances of the local Bedouin population to a more international focus and an expansion of the recruiting base.
(8) He said the Egyptian authorities, who approved his travel to Bir Tawil, appeared positive about his scheme, and that the Bedouins he spoke to “welcomed” his ideas, though admits he only spoke to a handful of people.
(9) His monstrous wardrobe, his entourages of 300 or 400 ferried in four aeroplanes, his huge bedouin tent, complete with accompanying camel, pitched in public parks or in the grounds of five-star hotels – and his bodyguards of gun-toting young women, who, though by no means hiding their charms beneath demure Islamic veils, were all supposedly virgins, and sworn to give their lives for their leader.
(10) Of 92 patients, 51% were Jews of Ethiopian origin, 29% were Jews of non-Ethiopian origin, and 20% were Bedouins.
(11) In an unprecedented move the leaders of Jordan's main Bedouin tribes have published an open letter addressed to King Abdullah II accusing his wife, Queen Rania, of corruption.
(12) The traditional Bedouin Arab lifestyle (living in tents or huts and in traditional or transitional encampments) contributed strongly to increased duration of breast feeding.
(13) Trouble erupted in the Sinai peninsula after a group of bedouin tribesmen stormed a tourist resort in an effort to reclaim land.
(14) We were offered land in exchange for moving from here near Yatta [the neighbouring town visible from Khirbet Susiya] but they have no right.” The long saga of Khirbet Susiya is symbolic of a wider problem of demolition and displacement affecting unrecognised villages in both the occupied Palestinian territories and Bedouin communities in Israel itself.
(15) Higher admission rates were significantly related to female sex, the widowed and single status and Kuwaiti and Bedouin nationalities.
(16) The donkey appears to digest cell wall constituents as efficiently as the Bedouin goat when on low quality roughage, but less efficiently when fed alfalfa hay.
(17) It must be ruled out in patients with diabetes, those undergoing prolonged corticosteroid therapy and in Bedouin and Yemenite patients in whom there is a greater incidence of the disease.
(18) TfD was present in low frequency (0.005) among both the Bedouin and non-Bedouin populations.
(19) Could a bedouin shepherd stand in the face of the Roman and Persian kings?"
(20) It is suggested that the exposure of the Bedouin Arabs to the environmental causative factors of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease has hitherto been limited and thereby accounts for the rarity of these diseases in this population.
Nomad
Definition:
(n.) One of a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game.
(a.) Roving; nomadic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Are we really any closer today in our understanding and appreciation of why the nomadic human made such a choice for their very existence during the transition to a more civilized society?
(2) Male risk factors, primarily associated with herding activities, included sleeping outside during seasonal migrations (also a risk factor for nomadic women), bite by a tick (adult male Hyalomma truncatum), tick bite during the cool dry season, and contact with sick animals.
(3) Pastoral nomadism is a way of life in many developing countries, especially in Africa.
(4) Nomads are a reservoir of susceptible individuals who require immunization strategies adapted to their particular life-styles.
(5) Persuading nomadic communities and local farmers of the merits of conservation has, he says, taken time.
(6) One of the hottest outings is the Unplugged Backyard Hangout (UBH) sessions: a nomadic all-night gathering, from 6pm to 6am, with a long lineup of the city’s musicians, live art, spoken word, and performances in the Kwazakhele neighbourhood.
(7) An exhibition of Japanese outsider art – all of it made in mental health institutions and daycare centres – continues throughout June at the Wellcome Institute in London and the nomadic Museum of Everything , created in 2009, continues its wanderings.
(8) Many individuals from nomadic communities complained of persistent pain in the lower limbs, which was often associated with radiologic evidence of osteoperiostitis of the long bones.
(9) These physical impairments would have greatly interfered with the individual's participation in subsistence activities and would have been a substantial handicap in a nomadic hunting and gathering group.
(10) He suffers from diabetes, a condition not helped by his nomadic lifestyle and manic disposition.
(11) The whole family has taken time to acclimatise to new surroundings, but such adjustments accompany the nomadic life of a football coach.
(12) With the index, we were able to compare the distribution and prevalence of emaciation between the population of nomadic herdsmen of the Adrar of Iforas and the population of sedentary agriculturalists of the Region of Gao in Mali.
(13) The Enterprise encounters NOMAD, a small space probe of incredible destructive power.
(14) In both nomads and settled residents known to have fully sensitive strains of tubercle bacilli pretreatment the 6-month regimen was highly effective with no failures during chemotherapy and only 3% relapses after stopping chemotherapy in 126 patients compared with a combined failure rate during chemotherapy and relapse rate of 21% in the 152 patients receiving the 12-month regimen (P less than 0.001).
(15) The fact that this individual reached adulthood throws new light on the attitude of these nomadic people towards such conditions.
(16) Eighteen (22.0%) of 82 cows kept under semi-intensive and 23(26.4%) of 87 cows kept under Fulani nomadic systems were shedding C. burnetii.
(17) His adrenalin-pumping shows are woven into American life, yet subvert its capitalist fundamentals, that innate American principle of screw-thy-neighbour, in favour of what he insists to be "real" America – working class, militant, street-savvy, tough but romantic, nomadic but with roots – compiled into what feels like a single epic but vernacular rock-opera lasting four decades.
(18) The Ethiopian authorities claim the PBS programme addresses the challenges of poverty through cost-effective service delivery to scattered and nomadic populations.
(19) Malaysia The Bakun dam in Sarawak, due to be completed this year, has displaced 10,000 tribal people, including many semi-nomadic Penan tribespeople.
(20) Nomads have developed special cultural and social patterns with a system of collective ownership in the clan or tribe.