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Shammar|ˈʃæmɑː(r)|
[Native name.]
(A member of) a Bedouin tribe originating in the Nafud desert of Saudi Arabia. Also attrib. or as adj.
1911G. Bell Let. 14 Apr. (1927) I. xii. 300 Now the Shammar are Beda; only the Shammar and the Anazeh are real Bedawin, the others are just Arabs. 1916T. E. Lawrence Home Lett. (1954) 311 There is a very heady old Shammar, and an Aneyze. 1929F. Stark Let. 24 Nov. (1974) i. 215 He..has now suggested a visit to one of the Shammar chiefs up the Tigris. 1959W. Thesiger Arabian Sands iii. 54 In Syria I had seen the Shammar migrating, a whole people on the move, covering the desert with their herds. |