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Meaning of Nabataean | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/ˌnæ.bəˈtiː.ən/

Definitions

  1. The ancient inhabitants of Nabataea, a region of Arabia inhabited by the Nabataeans that covers parts of northern Arabia and the Southern Levant, lying between Arabia and Syria, and stretching from the Euphrates river to the Red Sea. During the Hellenistic Period, the Nabataeans were involved in a nexus of trade routes reaching as far as Italy to the west and India to the east, which centered at their city of Petra in what is now Western Jordan near the Negev Desert from before 310 BCE until the Roman conquest in 106 CE.
  2. The language of those people.
  3. Any of a group of people who once lived around modern Jordan.
    historical

Equivalents

العربية nbtw نَبَطِيّ
Deutsch Nabatäer
Español nabateo
日本語 ナバテア人

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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