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Appendix II

Semitic Roots
 
ENTRY:bdw.
DEFINITION:West Semitic, to be(come) desolate, desert; noun *badw-, desert. Bedouin, from Arabic badawyn, Bedouins, plural of badaw, nomadic, Bedouin, from badw, desert, nomads, Bedouins.
 
 
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