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The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.
Otto Schily

Meaning of "Maghreb" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MAGHREB

From Arabic, literally: the West.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MAGHREB

Maghreb  [ˈmʌɡrəb] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MAGHREB

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Maghreb is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MAGHREB MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Maghreb

Maghreb

The Maghreb is usually defined as much or most of the region of western North Africa or Northwest Africa, west of Egypt. The traditional definition as being the region including the Atlas Mountains and the coastal plains of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, was later superseded, especially since the 1989 formation of the Arab Maghreb Union, by the inclusion of Mauritania and of the disputed territory of Western Sahara. During the Al-Andalus era in Spain, the Maghreb's inhabitants, Maghrebis, were known as "Moors"; the Muslim areas of Spain in those times were usually included in contemporary definitions of the Maghreb—hence the use of 'Moor' or 'Moors' to describe the Muslim inhabitants of Spain by Christian and other Western sources. Historical terms for the region or various portions of it include Mauretania, Numidia, Libya, and Africa in classical antiquity. The term maghrib is in origin an Arabic word for "west, occident", denoting the westernmost territories that fell to the Islamic conquests of the 7th century.

Definition of Maghreb in the English dictionary

The definition of Maghreb in the dictionary is NW Africa, including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and sometimes Libya.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MAGHREB


carob
ˈkærəb
cherub
ˈtʃɛrəb
Maghrib
ˈmʌɡrəb
Mozarab
məʊˈzærəb
Pan-Arab
ˈpænˈærəb
scarab
ˈskærəb
Shatt-al-Arab
ˈʃætælˈærəb

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MAGHREB

Maggiore
maggot
maggotoria
maggotorium
maggoty
Magherafelt
Maghrebi
Maghrib
Maghribi
magi
magian
magic
magic bullet
magic carpet
Magic Circle

WORDS THAT END LIKE MAGHREB

Bab el Mandeb
Beeb
celeb
Cheb
deb
Feb
feeb
Horeb
keb
Leb
Loeb
neb
reb
saheb
semantic Web
Taleb
the web
web
World Wide Web
Zagreb

Synonyms and antonyms of Maghreb in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Maghreb» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MAGHREB

Find out the translation of Maghreb to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Maghreb from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Maghreb» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

马格里布
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Magreb
570 millions of speakers

English

Maghreb
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Maghreb
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المغرب العربي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Магриба
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Maghreb
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মাগরেব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Maghreb
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Maghreb
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Maghreb
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

マグレブ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

마그 레브
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Maghreb
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Maghreb
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மெக்ரப்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

माघरेब
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Mağrip
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Maghreb
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Maghreb
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Магрибу
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Maghreb
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Μαγκρέμπ
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Magreb
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Maghreb
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Maghreb
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Maghreb

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MAGHREB»

The term «Maghreb» is very widely used and occupies the 22.167 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MAGHREB» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Maghreb

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2 QUOTES WITH «MAGHREB»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Maghreb.
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Mohammed VI of Morocco
Morocco has a lot to do in terms of democracy. The daily practice of democracy evolves in time. Trying to apply a Western democratic system to a country of the Maghreb, the Middle East, or the Gulf would be a mistake. We are not Germany, Sweden or Spain.
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Otto Schily
The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAGHREB»

Discover the use of Maghreb in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Maghreb and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Politics and Power in the Maghreb: Algeria, Tunisia and ...
This book examines the politics of the three states of the central Maghreb - Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco - since their achievement of independence from European colonial rule in the 1950s and 1960s.
Michael J. Willis, 2012
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Picturing the Maghreb: Literature, Photography, (re)presentation
The book explores photography as a metaphor for other sorts of representation and examines the cultural impact of actual photographs.
Mary B. Vogl, 2003
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A Tragedy of Arms: Military and Security Developments in the ...
The Maghreb--Morocco, Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia--is a region overburdened by unnecessary military expenditures.
Anthony H. Cordesman, 2002
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Memories of the Maghreb: Transnational Identities in Spanish ...
Memories of the Maghreb explores how the Spanish colonization of North Africa at the turn of the twentieth century continues to haunt Spain's efforts to articulate a national identity that can accommodate both the country's diversity, ...
Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo, 2012
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Barbary and Enlightenment: European Attitudes Towards the ...
This book, based on a wide range of eighteenth-century works, concerns European attitude towards North Africa in the century preceding the French conquest of Algiers in 1830.
Ann Thomson, 1987
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Technology and Transition: The Maghreb at the Crossroads
This is an analysis of economic development in the Maghreb and a prognosis for the future, with discussion on the rate at which industries and governments take on board technological change.
Abdelkader Djeflat, Girma Zawdie, 2014
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Queer Nations: Marginal Sexualities in the Maghreb
" In this incisive postcolonial study, Jarrod Hayes uses literary analysis to examine how Francophone novelists from the Maghreb engaged in a diametric nation-building project.
Jarrod Hayes, 2000
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Morocco Bound: Disorienting America’s Maghreb, from ...
Until attention shifted to the Middle East in the early 1970s, Americans turned most often toward the Maghreb—Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and the Sahara—for their understanding of “the Arab.” In Morocco Bound, Brian T. Edwards ...
Brian Edwards, 2005
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Genealogies of Al-Andalus: Music and Patrimony in the Modern ...
Through a combination of archival and ethnographic research, I suggest that the circulatory patterns that have characterized this musical practice over the past hundred years gave rise to a patrimonial practice that is deeply ambiguous, ...
Jonathan Glasser, 2008
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Financial Sector Reforms and Prospects for Financial ...
A healthy and dynamic financial sector is essential to achieving high and sustainable economic growth in the Maghreb region-Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia.
Mr. Juan Sole, Mr. Gabriel Sensenbrenner, Mr. Amor Tahari, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MAGHREB»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Maghreb is used in the context of the following news items.
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allAfrica.com: Algeria: Messahel - Algeria, 'Model and Prime …
... for several countries and partners, Minister of Maghreb Affairs, the African Union and the League Arabic Abdelkader Messahel said Monday. «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
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Renewed tensions grip Algeria's Ghardaia
... and their failure to manage them", said Ahmed Kateb, a researcher at the University of Algiers who studies Euro-Maghreb relationships. «Yahoo! Maktoob News, Jul 15»
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Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claims ambush that killed Algerian …
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), al Qaeda's official branch in North Africa, claimed its fighters ambushed and killed more than 10 ... «Long War Journal, Jul 15»
4
New bloc to sell Africa to Africans | Opinion & Analysis | BDlive
The Maghreb, Egypt and Sudan have a very high proportion of ... In absolute terms, the Maghreb region has 8,933km of installed rail, but if the ... «BDlive, Jul 15»
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The news in brief
... and its byways, whether in the casbahs of the Maghreb or the alleyways of Haifa--in cafes and taxis and on hand-held radios ... everywhere. «Arkansas Online, Jul 15»
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Tunisia: Libyan debt to clinics exceed 100 million dinars
In a statement to the newspaper "The Maghreb" Khaled Nabli, President of the Tunisian Chamber of Private Clinics said health care debts of Libyan patients to ... «African Manager, Jul 15»
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Travel to Morocco to experience a country of contrasts
To journey to Al Maghreb (Morocco is a corruption of the French name) is to step back to a world where artifice and artificers' marks nick every ... «The Wharf, Jul 15»
8
Muslims celebrate end of Ramadan with prayer and a feast
Men gather to pray during Maghreb Association of North America's Eid Prayer and Party on Friday at Lions Woods in Des Plaines. Eid al-Fitr is ... «Chicago Daily Herald, Jul 15»
9
US scholars feel blessed to celebrate Eid in Lucknow
LUCKNOW: For Isa Weaver, opening his roza after hearing the Maghreb azaan was the most fascinating part this Ramzan. US-based Isa is a ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
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Muslims in Quebec, Belonging to an Intercultural Society: An …
So for the immigrants from the Maghreb, there is no reason and no basis for resentment unless we create it totally out of our own heads, ... «Jadaliyya, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Maghreb [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/maghreb>. Apr 2024 ».
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