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noun
1.
History/Historical. a member of any of the nomadic tribes on the Syrian borders of the Roman Empire.
2.
(in later use) an Arab.
3.
a Muslim, especially in the period of the Crusades.
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Saracen
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Origin:
before 900; Middle English, Old English < Medieval Latin Saracēnus < Late Greek Sarakēnós
before 900; Middle English, Old English < Medieval Latin Saracēnus < Late Greek Sarakēnós
Related forms
Sar·a·cen·ism, noun
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Saracen
O.E., "an Arab" (in Gk. and Roman translations), also, mid-13c., generally, "non-Christian, heathen, pagan," from O.Fr. saracin, from L.L. saracenus, from Gk. sarakenos, usually said to be from Arabic Sharquiyin, accusative plural of sharqiy "eastern," from sharq "east, sunrise," but this is not certain.
EXPANDIn Medieval times the name was associated with that of Biblical Sarah (q.v.).
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"Peple þat cleped hem self Saracenys, as þogh þey were i-come of Sarra" [John of Trevisa, transl. Higdon's Polychronicon, 1387]The name Greeks and Romans gave to the nomads of the Syrian and Arabian deserts. Specific sense of "Middle Eastern Muslim" is from the Crusades.
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