Bahraini
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- adjective
- /bɑːˈreɪni/
- Certainly, that is the way it has been portrayed by the Bahraini monarchy and some of the other Gulf Arab states.
- Bahraini opposition
Examples
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This decision will only serve to further anger and incite Bahraini citizens.
Blog text (7) -
The king of Bahrain gave each Bahraini family $3,000.
Academic text (2011) -
The Bahraini government should not receive U.S. military aid while it continues to suppress popular demands for reform.
Blog text (23) -
To fight the violence in the streets, Bahraini rulers must make some democratic concessions, not further quell democracy.
Blog text (7) -
A Bahraini court has once again adjourned the appellate trial of human rights activist Nabeel Rajab.
Blog text (16) -
One indication of this is the very high unemployment levels, with unofficial estimates ranging from 15% to 30% among Bahraini nationals, which disproportionately impacts Shi'a citizens.
Blog text (26) -
In 2004, the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights estimated that over half of Bahraini citizens were living in poverty, and yet, simultaneously, the richest 5,200 Bahrainis had a combined wealth greater than $20 billion.
Blog text (26) -
The Bahraini opposition declared February 14 an anti-government "Day of Rage," and by March 16, the Bahraini security forces, supported by Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) units, had succeeded in suppressing the opposition.
Academic text (2011) -
Now, every day as the sun warmed the Arabian Gulf, Farid and the other young Bahraini men went out in their wooden boats, called dhows, to dive for oysters.
Fiction book (2002) -
Many Bahraini citizens participated in the national celebrations last week.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bahraini comes from the Arabic name al-Baḥrayn, which means 'the two seas' and comes from bahr 'sea'. So Bahraini describes something or someone 'from Bahrain', the island country by the sea.