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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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
Fatima gripped her newborn tightly against her chest as the Tuareg woman queued beneath the scorching Mauritanian afternoon sun to register herself and her child as refugees.
From Barron's • Nov. 10, 2025
Later he tried to build civil society in war-torn Iraq and Libya and was briefly kidnapped by Tuareg militiamen.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
Ansar Dine was one of several Islamist militant groups to exploit an ethnic Tuareg uprising to take over cities in northern Mali.
From BBC • Nov. 20, 2024
The Tuareg consider themselves the best physical specimens in the Sahara, which they are.
From Border, Breed Nor Birth by Reynolds, Mack
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