Wiktionary
zabaleen
n. (alternative form of Zabbaleen English)
Usage examples of "zabaleen".
The zabaleen are a private-sector success story, filling the gap in a municipal service where the government is ineffective.
The zabaleen are a constant in the life of Cairo, much like the half-million Egyptians who inhabit tombs in Cairo’s Northern and Southern cemeteries (collectively known as the City of the Dead).
The zabaleen are now a cliche: Journalists in Cairo yawn when you mention them.
In Embaba, and also amid the zabaleen, one may hear “the cry the inhabited tormented city had nailed in the middle of’ Kazantzakis’s “heart.