बड़े अफ्रीकी काले और सफेद कैरियन-खाने का सामान; इसके डाउनी अंडरविंग पंखों का उपयोग वस्त्रों को ट्रिम करने के लिए किया जाता है

Noun:

फकीर का कब्र, मुसलमान संन्यासी, फकीर,

marabout's Usage Examples:

Well right now his working on a cure for Aids that he learned off a South African marabout.

In the vicinity are the villages of Joinville and Montpensier, which owe their origin to military camps established by Marshal Valee in 1838; and on the road to Medea are the tombs of the marabout Mahommed-el-Kebir, who died in 1580, and his two sons.

Among the birds prized for their plumage are the marabout, crane, heron, blackbird, parrot, jay and humming-birds of extraordinary brilliance.

Birds are very numerous; they include various eagles, several kinds of heron, the egret, the marabout, the crane and the pelican; turacos or plantain-eaters, are common, as are other brilliantly plumaged birds.

They are possessed of certain privileges, such as exemption from the chief taxes and the duty of bearing arms. They, however, often take a foremost part in tribal administration, and are frequently called upon to perform the office of arbitrators in questions of disputed policy, 'c. In the Jemda, too, the Marabout at times takes the place of honour and keeps order.

The birds include the ostrich, marabout, vultures, kites, hawks, ground hornbill, great bustard, guinea fowl, partridge, lesser bustard, quail, snipe, duck, widgeon, teal, geese of various kinds, paraquets, doves, blue, bronze and green pigeons, and many others.

Murdbit, a religious ascetic (see Marabout).

The town, founded by the French, derives its name from the kubba (tomb) of a marabout named Sidi-bel-Abbes, near which a redoubt was constructed by General Bedeau in 1843.

In the Sud Oranais an insurrection, fomented by a marabout named Bu-Amama, broke out in 1881, and the insurgents massacred the European labourers engaged in the collection of alfa (or esparto) grass.

It contains the kubba of a celebrated marabout, Sidi Embarek, who lived in the 7th century.

marabout's Meaning':

large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments