ABSTRACT
There remains one peculiar designation of inhabitants in Arabia to analyse. We start with a note in the Lisān:
The ʔaʕrābī is the badawī and they are the ʔaʕrāb.
Those who have settled in the bādiya or have sought refuge by the people of the bādiya (bādūn), journeyed like them, moving around with them, they are ʔaʕrāb. 1
