TUAREG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tuareg mean? 

• TUAREG (noun)
  The noun TUAREG has 2 senses:

1. a member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara

2. the dialect of Berber spoken by the Tuareg

  Familiarity information: TUAREG used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TUAREG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Tuareg" is a kind of...):

African (a native or inhabitant of Africa)

Holonyms ("Tuareg" is a member of...):

Sahara; Sahara Desert (the world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The dialect of Berber spoken by the Tuareg

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Tuareg" is a kind of...):

Berber (a cluster of related dialects that were once the major language of northern Africa west of Egypt; now spoken mostly in Morocco)