Sar·a·cen 
(sărə-sən)
(sărə-sən)n.
1. A member of a pre-Islamic nomadic people of the Syrian and Arabian Deserts.
2. A Muslim, especially of the time of the Crusades.
[Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin Saracēnus, from Late Greek Sarakēnos, ultimately from Arabic šarq, east, sunrise; see śrq in the Appendix of Semitic roots.]
Sar′a·cenic (-sĕnĭk) adj.