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Sahrawi

/səˈɹɑːwi/ · adj

Meaning

  1. A person from Western Sahara (formerly Spanish Sahara).
  2. Of, from, or pertaining to Western Sahara, the Sahrawi people or their language Hassaniya Arabic.

Etymology / origin

From Arabic صَحْرَاوِيّ (ṣaḥrāwiyy, “of the desert”), from صَحْرَاء (ṣaḥrāʔ, “desert”).

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