Bahraini
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- noun
- /bɑːˈreɪni/
- Peaceful activists like Jihan currently hold sway, but given the brutality I witnessed, it's unclear how long the Bahraini revolution will remain nonviolent.
- Bahraini government
- Bahraini state
Examples
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Immediately, Bahraini authorities should free Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and 13 other jailed leaders of last year's anti-government protests.
Blog text (17) -
These issues have not been addressed in any fundamental way by the Bahraini regime, and for this reason we certainly haven't seen the last of the uprisings in the country.
Blog text (26) -
The Tunisian and Egyptian presidents were crossed out, and question marks hung over the faces of the Libyan, Bahraini, and Yemeni leaders.
Blog text (22) -
Human rights activist interviewees state that the Bahraini NHRI was established in reaction to opposition groups' demands for more political and public participation in the early 2000s, as part of the concessions to the opposition forces.
Academic text (2016) -
A nuclear-armed Iran casts a much larger shadow over Kuwait than it does France, and a military strike on Iran is much more likely to have a direct effect on the life of a Bahraini than an Englishman.
Academic text (2007) -
And even though the regime is not comfortable with acknowledging the "opposition" to be more than al-Wifaq, a realization that Bahraini politics cannot be reduced to a zero-sum game is absolutely necessary if a political solution is to be viable.
Blog text (15) -
What should worry the Bahraini king, if he cares to read the summary, is not the paragraphs outlining different views and takes on the political situation in the country, but rather those who summarize all that the participants could agree on, because therein lies his real challenge if he wants to create stability in the country.
Blog text (15) -
As for Bahraini King Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa and the rest of his ruling family, they may soon rue the day they lost whatever legitimate claims they had on their little kingdom by choosing repression over reform.
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Ratification of human rights treaties, which correspond to calls for domestic political and social reform in Bahrain, is part of a framework of concessions offered by the ruling elites to opposition forces in addition to protecting the Bahraini state from international isolation.
Academic text (2016) -
The Bahraini people celebrated their national day with festivals and parades.
Synonyms
A person who comes from or is a citizen of Bahrain
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bahraini comes from the Arabic name al-Baḥrayn, which means 'the two seas' and comes from bahr 'sea'. So a Bahraini is a person 'from Bahrain', a nation of islands by the sea.