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béni-oui-oui: Arabic → French · Lexodus

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béni-oui-oui

From Arabic بَنِي (banī, “sons of”) + oui oui, thus roughly “the tribe of yes-yes”. Originally referred disparagingly to the Muslim advisers employed by the French in colonial northern Africa, many of whom were servile and therefore ineffective.

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c. 750 CEArabic

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c. 750 CE
c. 1700

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.