| 释义 |
tua·reg
noun
also toua·reg \ˈtwäˌreg\
(plural tuareg or tuaregs also touareg or touaregs)
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: Arabic Tawāriq
1. : one of the dominant nomads of the central and western Sahara and along the Middle Niger from Timbuktu to Nigeria who are perhaps descendants of the ancient Gaetulians, have preserved their Hamitic speech in great purity and also their alphabet derived prob. from the Punic but have adopted the Muslim religion, are tall, of Mediterranean features, and occasionally light-haired, and whose men wear a cloth about the face but whose women go unveiled — compare tifinagh
2. : tamashek |