Arabia/UK: 'A Bedouin Encampment'. Watercolour painting by John Frederick Lewis (1804-1876), c. 1841-1851. Bedouin are a part of a predominantly desert-dwelling Arabian ethnic group traditionally divided into tribes, or clans, known in Arabic as ʿašāʾir. The term 'Bedouin' derives from a plural form of the Arabic word badawī, as it is pronounced in colloquial dialects. The Arabic term badawī derives from the word bādiyah, which means semiarid desert (as opposed to ṣaḥarāʾ which means desert).

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