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单词 maghrib
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maghribn.adj.

Brit. /maˈɡriːb/, /ˈmaɡrɪb/, /ˈmɑːɡrɪb/, U.S. /ˈmæˌɡrɪb/, /ˈmæɡrəb/, /ˈmɑɡrəb/
Forms: 1600s mogrube, 1600s mogrubey, 1700s magarape, 1700s– magreb, 1800s mugh'rib, 1800s– maghreb, 1800s– maghrib, 1800s– magrib, 1800s– mugrib.
Origin: A borrowing from Arabic. Etymon: Arabic maġrib.
Etymology: < Arabic maġrib time or place of sunset, west, North-west Africa, also (short for Maġrib al-Aqṣā ‘the far West’) Morocco, and (short for ṣalāt al-maġrib ) sunset prayer < ġaraba go away, depart, (of the sun) set. Compare Maghribi n. and adj.
1. Islam. One of the five obligatory daily times of prayer, lasting from sunset to dusk; the prayers said at this time.
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1609 R. C. True Hist. Disc. Muley Hamets Rising sig. Iv Being twilight, they give God thanks after their dayly labors, desiring his blessing may prosper them: this they terme Mogrube.
1757 T. Shaw Trav. Barbary & Levant (rev. ed.) Index 503/2 Magreb, or sun-set prayers.
1832 G. A. Herklots tr. J. Sharîf Qanoon-e-Islam xxii. 255 In the evening, before the Mugrib prayer season they breakfast.
1888 C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta I. xii. 354 Their partitions of the daylight are..ghraibat es-shems, the sun going down to the setting:—mághrib is a strange town speaking to their ears.
1927 A. J. Wensinck Handbk. Early Muhammadan Trad. 193/1 People must join in common..[prayer] even if they have already accomplished..[prayer] alone... Except in the case of magẖrib and ṣubḥ.
1966 D. Forbes Heart of Malaya xiv. 193 The Magrib is also ideally a reading of the Koran in the mosque.
1998 K. Shamsie In City by Sea viii. 65 Hasan usually prayed at maghrib, brought to his knees in adulation by the sunset, but today the laughter seemed worship enough.
2. Chiefly with capital initial. A region of North and North West Africa (formerly known in Europe as Africa Minor or Barbary) between the Atlantic Ocean and Egypt, comprising the coastal plain and Atlas Mountains of Morocco, together with Algeria, Tunisia, and sometimes also Tripolitania (in present-day Libya). In recent use: spec. Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia regarded collectively as a social, political, or economic grouping. Frequently attributive or as adj.
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1832 ‘J. C.’ tr. Crit. Ess. Var. MS Wks. 20 Ibn Khaldún..devoted his pages to the history of the Muhammedan sovereigns who reigned in Maghreb (or Mauritania), Syria, and Egypt.
1910 Encycl. Brit. IX. 97/1 The Zeirids maintained Mahdia..,while other cities of the Maghrib were colonized by Arab tribes sent thither by the Cairene vizier.
1937 Geogr. Jrnl. 90 164 It is typical of Maghreb history that this great Zenaga tribe after centuries of tumult seems to have disappeared without trace.
1961 Ann. Reg. 1960 327 It was regarded as a breach of Maghrib unity.
1991 A. Hourani Hist. Arab Peoples i. iii. 45 The most important trade was that which went along the southern coast, linking Spain and the Maghrib with Egypt and Syria, with Tunisia as the entrepôt.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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