douar
A camp or village of tents in a North African country.
“A slave would be the better word,” she answered. “I was stolen in the night from my father’s douar by a band of marauders. They brought me here and sold me to the Arab who keeps this café.”
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French douar, from Arabic دَوّار (dawwār).
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry douar (CC BY-SA 4.0).