单词 | howeitat |
释义 | Howeitatn.adj. A. n. (A member of) a Bedouin tribe of northern Saudi Arabia. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Arabia > [noun] Ascapartc1330 Koreish1649 Rwalaa1817 Sherarata1817 Howeitat1831 Shammar1911 1831 J. L. Burckhardt & W. Ouseley Notes on Bedouins & Wahábys (new ed.) I. 29 El Haueytat..are about three hundred horsemen, but can furnish a large body of armed camel-drivers... In seasons of drought the Haueytat approach Gaza or Hebron. 1917 T. E. Lawrence Let. 10 July (1938) 225 Sherif Nasir stayed in Kaf to enrol Rualla, Shererat and Huweitat for the Akaba expedition. 1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) xxxi. 152 With his [sc. Feisal's] northern neighbours, the coastal Howeitat, he had already made a beginning. 1957 H. St. J. Philby Forty Years in Wilderness v. 99 The tribes mentioned were Huwaitat..and some others. B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Arabia > [adjective] Scenite1600 Arabic1611 Howeitat1838 Bedouin1844 Sherari1888 Rwala1918 Bedu1959 1838 J. R. Wellsted Trav. Arabia II. ix. 167 The Howeïtát Bedowins occupy the coast from Magnah to Jebel 'Antar. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.adj.1831 |
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