Maghreb

English

The Maghreb

Alternative forms

• Maghrib

Etymology

From Arabic مَغْرِب (maḡrib, literally “where the sun sets, the West”), noun of place from غَرَبَ (ḡaraba, “to set, to go down”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːɡɹɛb/, /ˈmʌɡɹəb/

Proper noun

Maghreb

2. The predominantly Arab geographic region comprising northwest Africa, particularly the region of Africa north of the Sahara and west of the Nile; the coastal plains of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and western Libya.

Usage notes

As the name of a region, construed with "the": the Maghreb

Antonyms

• Levant
• Mashreq

Coordinate terms

• Maghrebi
• Maghrebian
• Maghrebin

Derived terms

• Little Maghreb
• Maghrebi
• Maghrebin

Translations

region in Africa

• Albanian: Magreb m
• Arabic: اَلْمَغْرِب (ar) m (al-maḡrib), اَلْمَغْرِب اَلْعَرَبِيّ m (al-maḡrib al-ʕarabiyy)
• Armenian: Մաղրիբ (Maġrib)
• Azerbaijani: Məğrib
• Belarusian: Магры́б m (Mahrýb)
• Bengali: মাগরেব (bn) (magreb)
• Bulgarian: Магре́б m (Magréb)
• Catalan: Magrib m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馬格里布 (zh) (Mǎgélǐbù)

• Danish: Maghreb
• Dutch: Maghreb m
• Esperanto: Magrebo
• Finnish: Maghreb (fi)
• French: Maghreb (fr) m
• Galician: Magreb m
• Georgian: მაღრიბი (maɣribi)
• German: Maghreb (de) n
• Greek: Μαγκρέμπ (el) (Magkrémp), Μπαρμπαριά (el) f (Barmpariá)
• Hebrew: מגרב
• Hindi: मग़रिब m (maġrib), मग़रेब m (maġreb), मगरब (hi) m (magrab)
• Indonesian: Maghrib
• Italian: Magreb
• Japanese: マグリブ (ja) (Maguribu)
• Kazakh: Мағриб (Mağrib)
• Korean: 마그레브 (Mageurebeu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Mexrib (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Магриб (Magrib)
• Malay: Maghreb
• Occitan: Magrèb (oc) m
• Pashto: مغرب m (maǧréb)
• Persian: مغرب عربی (mağreb-e 'arabi), مغرب (fa) (mağreb)
• Portuguese: Magrebe m
• Russian: Магри́б (ru) m (Magríb)
• Spanish: Magreb (es) m
• Sundanese: Magribi
• Tajik: Мағриб (Maġrib)
• Tatar: Мәгъриб (Mäğrib)
• Turkish: Mağrip (tr)
• Ukrainian: Магри́б m (Mahrýb)
• Urdu: مغرب (ur) m (maġrib)
• Uyghur: مەغرىب (meghrib)
• Uzbek: Magʻrib

Anagrams

• Hamberg

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَغْرِب (maḡrib, literally “where the sun sets, the West”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ɡʁɛb/

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Proper noun

Maghreb m

1. Maghreb (The predominantly Arab geographic region comprising northwest Africa, particularly the region of Africa north of the Sahara and west of the Nile; the coastal plains of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and western Libya)

Coordinate terms

• maghrébin
• Maghrébin

Derived terms

• maghrébin
• Maghrébin
• Petit Maghreb