Berber
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See also: berber
Contents
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Arabic بَرْبَرِيّ (barbariyy, “Berber”), probably from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “non-Greek, foreign, barbarian”), apparently imitative of foreign speech.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bə(ɹ)
Noun[edit]
Berber (plural Berbers)
- A member of a particular ethnic group indigenous to northwest Africa.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
Member of northwest African ethnic group
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Proper noun[edit]
Berber
- A group of closely related Afroasiatic languages spoken in northern Africa, particularly Morocco and Algeria.
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Translations[edit]
Adjective[edit]
Berber (not comparable)
- Of the Berber people, their culture, or their language.
Translations[edit]
of the Berber people
External links[edit]
See also[edit]
German[edit]
Noun[edit]
Berber m (genitive Berbers, plural Berber, feminine Berberin)
- Berber person
Declension[edit]
Declension of Berber
Proper noun[edit]
Berber m, f (genitive Berbers)
- A surname.
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Bèrber m (Cyrillic spelling Бѐрбер)
- Berber (member of the Berber ethnic group)
Declension[edit]
Declension of Berber
Derived terms[edit]
Categories:
- English terms derived from Arabic
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English proper nouns
- English adjectives
- English uncomparable adjectives
- English reduplications
- German lemmas
- German nouns
- German masculine nouns
- German proper nouns
- German feminine nouns
- German surnames
- Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns