Mauritanian
noun, adjective
Mauritanian is a noun meaning “A person from Mauritania or of Mauritanian descent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-U-R-I-T-A-N-I-A-N, and it appears about once in every 5 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Mauritanian is Mauritanians.
What does Mauritanian mean?
noun
- 1
A person from Mauritania or of Mauritanian descent.
adjective
- 1
Of, from, or pertaining to Mauritania, the Mauritanian people or the Mauritanian language.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Mauritanian?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Mauritanian.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of Mauritanian
- Mauritanians plural
- more Mauritanian comparative
- most Mauritanian superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Mauritanian?
Mauritanian appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 67,454th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Mauritanian in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | Mauritanien, Mauritanienne , mauritanien |
| German | Mauretanier, Mauretanierin , mauretanisch |
| Portuguese | mauritano, mauritana |
| Spanish | mauritano, mauritana |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does Mauritanian come from?
From Mauritania + -an.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).