Nabataeans

Nabataeans
n. resident of Nabataea, one who is from Nabataea (also Nabatean) adj. of or pertaining to the people of an ancient Arabian kingdom, of the language of the Nabataeans (also Nabatean)

English contemporary dictionary. 2014.

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