纳巴泰人（阿拉伯文：الأنباط‎；英文：Nabataeans。又译纳巴提人）， 是在约旦、迦南的南部和阿拉伯北部营商的古代商人。弗拉维奥·约瑟夫斯把叙利亚和阿拉伯的边界、幼发拉底河至红海的地命名为「纳巴泰」，也就是他们位于绿洲的居住地和名字来源。

他们宽松的贸易管理网络以一串绿洲为中心点，但中心点没有足够范围作集体农业，而绿洲间的通路在荒漠周遭毫无防线。在106年罗马帝国皇帝图拉真征服纳巴泰并并入罗马帝国，令到其文化尤其是罐装着色陶器业分散，最后永久失落。

The Nabataeans, also Nabateans (/ˌnæbəˈtiːənz/; Arabic:الأنباط‎ al-ʾAnbāṭ, compare to Ancient Greek: Ναβαταίος, Latin:Nabatæus), were an Arab people who inhabited northern Arabia and the Southern Levant, and whose settlements, most prominently the assumed capital city of Raqmu, now called Petra, in AD 37 – c. 100, gave the name of Nabatene to the borderland between Arabia and Syria, from the Euphrates to the Red Sea. Their loosely controlled trading network, which centered on strings of oases that they controlled, where agriculture was intensively practiced in limited areas, and on the routes that linked them, had no securely defined boundaries in the surrounding desert. Trajan conquered the Nabataean kingdom, annexing it to the Roman Empire, where their individual culture, easily identified by their characteristic finely potted painted ceramics, became dispersed in the general Greco-Roman culture and was eventually lost. They were later converted to Christianity. Jane Taylor, a writer, describes them as "one of the most gifted peoples of the ancient world".