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Maghreb

/ma.ɡʁɛb/

proper noun/ma.ɡʁɛb/

Maghreb (the predominantly Arabic-speaking geographic region comprising northwest Africa, particularly the region of Africa north of the Sahara and west of the Nile; the coastal plains of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and western Libya)

Related: maghrébin, Maghrébin, Petit Maghreb

Borrowed from Arabic مَغْرِب (maḡrib, literally “where the sun sets, the West”).