Ghawazi
English
Etymology
Arabic غَوَازِي (ḡawāzī) (singular غَازِيَة (ḡāziya)) meaning "conqueror", i.e. conquering the hearts of the audience.
Noun
Ghawazi pl (plural only)
- A group of Egyptian dancing girls of the Nawari people, whose suggestive dancing was seen as improper.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Ghawazi in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)