Maghreb

English

From Arabic مَغْرِب (maḡrib, literally “where the sun sets, the West”), noun of place from غَرَبَ (ḡaraba, “to set, to go down”).

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.

As the name of a region, construed with "the": the Maghreb

region in Africa

Albanian: Magreb m
Arabic: اَلْمَغْرِب (ar) m (al-maḡrib), اَلْمَغْرِب اَلْعَرَبِيّ m (al-maḡrib al-ʕarabiyy)
Armenian: Մաղրիբ (Maġrib)
Azerbaijani: Məğrib
Belarusian: Магры́б m (Mahrýb)
Bengali: মাগরেব (bn) (magreb)
Bulgarian: Магре́б m (Magréb)
Catalan: Magrib m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 馬格里布 (zh) (Mǎgélǐbù)
Danish: Maghreb
Dutch: Maghreb m
Esperanto: Magrebo
Finnish: Maghreb (fi)
French: Maghreb (fr) m
Galician: Magreb m
Georgian: მაღრიბი (maɣribi)
German: Maghreb (de) n
Greek: Μαγκρέμπ (el) (Magkrémp), Μπαρμπαριά (el) f (Barmpariá)
Hebrew: מגרב
Hindi: मग़रिब m (maġrib), मग़रेब m (maġreb), मगरब (hi) m (magrab)
Indonesian: Maghrib
Italian: Magreb
Japanese: マグリブ (ja) (Maguribu)
Kazakh: Мағриб (Mağrib)
Korean: 마그레브 (Mageurebeu)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: Mexrib (ku)
Kyrgyz: Магриб (Magrib)
Malay: Maghreb
Occitan: Magrèb (oc) m
Pashto: مغرب m (maǧréb)
Persian: مغرب عربی (maġreb-e 'arabi), مغرب (fa) (maġreb)
Portuguese: Magrebe m
Russian: Магри́б (ru) m (Magríb)
Spanish: Magreb (es) m
Sundanese: Magribi
Tajik: Мағриб (Maġrib)
Tatar: Мәгъриб (Mäğrib)
Turkish: Mağrip (tr)
Ukrainian: Магри́б m (Mahrýb)
Urdu: مغرب (ur) m (maġrib)
Uyghur: مەغرىب (meghrib)
Uzbek: Magʻrib

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

Maghreb m

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)