المغرب

Literally, “the West”, see مَغْرِب (maḡrib) for more.

• IPA^(key): /al.maɣ.rib/

الْمَغْرِب • (al-maḡrib) m

1. Maghreb (the predominantly Arabic-speaking 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)
2. Morocco (a country in North Africa)

• مَغْرِبِيّ (maḡribiyy)

• Moroccan Arabic: المَغْرِب (el-maḡrib), المُغْرِب (el-muḡrib)
• → Azerbaijani: Məğrib
• → Bengali: মাগরেব (magreb)
• → French: Maghreb
  • → English: Maghreb
• → Kazakh: Мағриб (Mağrib)
• → Kyrgyz: Магриб (Magrib)
• → Persian: مغرب (maġreb)
  • > Tajik: Мағриб (Maġrib) (inherited)
• → Ottoman Turkish: مغرب (mağrib)
  • > Turkish: Mağrip (inherited)
  • → Crimean Tatar: Mağrip
• → Tatar: Мәгъриб (Mäğrib)
• → Uyghur: مەغرىب (meghrib)
• → Uzbek: Magʻrib

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “غرب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

From Arabic الْمَغْرِب (al-maḡrib).

• IPA^(key): /ɪl.maɣ.rib/, /ɪl.muɣ.rib/

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المَغْرِب or المُغْرِب • (el-maḡrib or el-muḡrib) m

1. Morocco (a country in North Africa)

• مَغْرِبِي (maḡribi)
• مُغْرَبِي (muḡrabi)

From Arabic الْمَغْرِب (al-maḡrib).

المغرب • (il-maḡreb) m

1. Maghreb, North Africa

   Synonym: بلاد المغرب (bilād il-maḡreb)

2. Morocco (a country in North Africa)

   Synonym: المغرب الأقصى (ll-maḡreb il-ʔaqṣa, literally “the extreme west”)

• مغربي (muḡrabi, “North African; Moroccan”)
• مغربية (muḡrabiyye, “couscous”)