douar
See also: Douar
English
Alternative forms
- duar
Etymology
From French douar, from Arabic دَوّار (dawwār).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈduːɑː/
Noun
douar (plural douars)
- A camp or village of tents in an Arabic country.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 34:
- he communicated by telephone instead of riding out by horseback, as in the good old days, to stay overnight in the various douars.
- 1988, Robert Irwin, The Mysteries of Algiers, Dedalus 1993, p. 16:
- ‘We burn their douars, we rape their women, we confiscate their crops, we carry out the necessary exemplary executions and we round up those who are left into what I can only call concentrations camps.’
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 34:
Anagrams
- doura
Breton
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈduː.ar/
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Noun
douar m (plural douaroù or douareier)
- earth, soil
- Earth
- land, country
Derived terms
- Douar an Tan
- douaroniezh
French
Etymology
Arabic دَوَّار (dawwār).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dwaʁ/
Audio (file)
Noun
douar m (plural douars)
- douar, duar
Further reading
- “douar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.