Definitions for maghreb
ˈmʌg rəbmaghreb

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1. Maghreb, Mahgribnoun

   the region of northwest Africa comprising the Atlas Mountains and the coastlands of Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia

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1. Maghrebnoun

   Northwest Africa, the region of Africa north of the Sahara and west of the Nile. The lands of the Maghreb are generally considered to be the coastal plains of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and western Libya.

2. Etymology: From مغرب, from غرب.

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1. maghreb

   Maghreb refers to a region in North Africa that includes the countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Mauritania. The term "Maghreb" is Arabic for "west" or "sunset," as this region is located in the western part of the Arab world. The cultures, languages, geographies, histories, and cuisines of the nations within this region are collectively referred to under the umbrella term "Maghrebi." Sometimes, it is also extended to include other neighboring nations or territories such as Western Sahara and Malta.

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1. Maghreb

   The Maghreb is usually defined as much or most of the region of Northwest Africa, west of Egypt. The traditional definition as being the region including the Atlas Mountains and the coastal plains of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, was later superseded, especially since the 1989 formation of the Arab Maghreb Union, by the inclusion of Mauritania and of the disputed territory of Western Sahara. During the Al-Andalus era in Spain, the Maghreb's inhabitants, Maghrebis, were known as "Moors"; the Muslim areas of Spain in those times were usually included in contemporary definitions of the Maghreb—hence the use of 'Moor' or 'Moors' to describe the Muslim inhabitants of Spain by Christian and other Western sources. Historical terms for the region or various portions of it include Numidia, Libya, and Africa in classical antiquity. The term maghrib is in origin an Arabic word for "west, occident", denoting the westernmost territories that fell to the Islamic conquests of the 7th century. Today, it is used as a proper noun denoting the Maghreb, also known as المغرب العربي al-maghrib al-ʻarabīy "the Arab Maghreb" or المغرب الكبير al-maghrib al-kabīr "the great Maghreb" in Arabic. The definite form al-maghrib is used for the country of Morocco in particular. The Berber language's alternative term for the region, Tamazgha, has been popularized by Berber activists since the second half of the 20th century.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of maghreb in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of maghreb in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of maghreb in a Sentence

1. Tunisian Interior Minister Najem Gharsalli:

   This cell is linked to Okba Ibn Nafaa and Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb, most of them came originally from Ansar al Sharia, it is a group of 23 people, including two Moroccans and an Algerian, but 80 percent of them are already arrested.

2. Christopher Chivvis:

   It appears likely that this was an attack by the Islamic State, but we have to remember that there are also other possibilities, it could have been Ansar al Shariah in Tunisia, which is a local group. It could have been al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.

3. Christopher Chivvis:

   It appears likely that this was an attack by the Islamic State but we have to remember that there are also other possibilities, it could have been Ansar al Shariah in Tunisia, which is a local group. It could have been al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.

4. Peter Bergen:

   George W. Bush called 9/11 an act of war and as a result conducted an actual war or two, so given France's quite aggressive campaign in Mali against al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and given the fact that France was one of the leaders of the coalition to overthrow (the late Moammar) Gadhafi in Libya, it seems quite likely that France will respond aggressively.

5. Marcus Hicks:

   What concerns me most specifically is al Qaeda, because I believe that al Qaeda-associated threats here, so al Shabaab and JNIM and the other offshoots of formerly known as al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, are taking direction from al Qaeda core and are sort of walking through the al Qaeda playbook to develop clandestine infrastructure, and I think they have a disciplined, patient approach to building a base that will allow them to form a caliphate when the time is right.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=maghreb
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Maghreb
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=maghreb