Mukhabarat

See also: mukhabarat

English

Etymology

From Arabic مُخَابَرَات (muḵābarāt), plural of مُخَابَر (muḵābar, “intelligence”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mʊˈkabəɹat/

Noun

Mukhabarat (countable and uncountable, plural Mukhabarats)

1. The secret police or intelligence forces in certain Arabic-speaking countries.
   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 283:

     He was sallow, morose-looking, and wearing dark glasses indoors: a thoroughly bad sign. A secret-police or Mukhabarat type, bored and resentful and hard to shake.

2. A member of such an organization.