[Ezekiel]

The discovery shed new light on a little-known ancient Bedouin civilization that once thrived in the desert...

Bedouin
c.1400, from Fr. bédouin, from Arabic badawin "desert-dwellers," pl. of badawi, from badw "desert, camp." The Arabic plural suffix was mistaken for part of the word. A word from the Crusades, it probably was lost in English and then reborrowed from French in 17c.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks E.