Berber

See also: berber

English

Etymology

From Arabic بَرْبَرِيّ (barbariyy, “Berber”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “non-Greek, foreign, barbarian”), apparently imitative of foreign speech.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bə(ɹ)

Noun

Berber (plural Berbers)

1. A member of a particular ethnic group indigenous to northwest Africa.

Synonyms

• Imazighen pl (singular: Amazigh)

Translations

Member of northwest African ethnic group

• Arabic: أَمَازِيغ m (ʔamāzīḡ), بَرْبَرِيّ m (barbariyy) (offensive, literally "Barbarian")
• Armenian: բերբեր (hy) (berber)
• Catalan: berber (ca)
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖ (amaziɣ), ⵉⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⴻⵏ pl (imaziɣen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 柏柏爾／柏柏尔 (zh), 柏柏尔 (zh) (Bòbò'ěr)

• Czech: Berber (cs) m
• Danish: Berber
• Esperanto: berbero
• Finnish: berberi (fi)
• French: Berbère (fr) m or f
• German: Berber (de) m, Berberin (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: Μάξυος m (Máxuos)

• Hindi: बर्बर (hi) (barbar), बार्बर (hi) (bārbar)
• Icelandic: Berberi m
• Irish: Beirbeireach m
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• Italian: berbero (it) m, berberi (it) m pl
• Japanese: ベルベル人 (Beruberu-jin)
• Kabyle: amaziɣ
• Korean: 베르베르인 (bereubereu'in)
• Moroccan Amazigh: ⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖ m (Amaziɣ), ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ f (Tamaziɣt), ⵉⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵏ pl or m pl (Imaziɣn), ⵜⵉⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵉⵏ pl or f pl (Timaziɣin)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: berber m

  Nynorsk: berbar m

• Polish: Berber (pl) m, Berberyjka (pl) f
• Portuguese: berbere (pt) m
• Russian: бербе́р (ru) m (berbér)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бѐрбер m

  Roman: Bèrber m

• Spanish: berebere (es)

Proper noun

Berber

1. A group of closely related Afroasiatic languages spoken in northern Africa, particularly Morocco and Algeria.

Translations

a group of closely related languages

• Arabic: أَمَازِيغِيَّة (ar) f (ʔamāzīḡiyya)

  Moroccan Arabic: شلحة (šelḥa)

• Catalan: berber (ca), amazic (ca)
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ f (tamaziɣt)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 柏柏爾語／柏柏尔语, 柏柏尔语 (Bòbò'ěryǔ)

• Czech: berberština f
• Danish: berbisk
• Finnish: berberi (fi), berberikieli (fi)
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• French: berbère (fr) m
• German: Berber (de) n
• Irish: Beirbeiris f
• Japanese: ベルベル語 (ja) (Beruberu-go)
• Navajo: Ghą́ą́ʼaskʼidii bił Naaldlooshí bizaad
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: berbisk m

  Nynorsk: berbisk m

• Portuguese: berbere (pt) m
• Russian: бербе́рский (ru) (berbérskij)
• Walloon: amazir (wa)

See also

• Category:English terms derived from Berber languages

Adjective

Berber (not comparable)

1. Of the Berber people, their culture, or their language.

Translations

of the Berber people

• Catalan: berber (ca), amazic (ca)
• Czech: berberský (cs)
• Dutch: Berbers (nl)
• Finnish: berberi- (fi), berberien
• French: berbère (fr)
• Hindi: बर्बर (hi) (barbar), बार्बर (hi) (bārbar)
• Icelandic: berberskur
• Irish: Beirbeireach
• Japanese: ベルベル人 (Beruberu-jin)
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: berbisk

  Nynorsk: berbisk

• Polish: berberyjski (pl) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бѐрберскӣ

  Roman: bèrberskī (sh)

See also

• Berberophone

Further reading

• (international standards) language code for [[w:ISO 639:Berber|]].

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Dutch

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛr.bər/
• Hyphenation: Ber‧ber

Noun

Berber m (plural Berbers)

1. Berber, Berber person

Derived terms

• Berbers

Proper noun

Berber n

1. Berber, Berber languages

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German

Pronunciation

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Noun

Berber m (genitive Berbers, plural Berber, feminine Berberin)

1. Berber person

Proper noun

Berber m or f (genitive Berbers)

1. a surname

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /běrber/
• Hyphenation: ber‧ber

Noun

Bèrber m (Cyrillic spelling Бѐрбер)

1. Berber (member of the Berber ethnic group)

Declension

Declension of Berber

	singular	plural
nominative	Berber	Berberi
genitive	Berbera	Berbera
dative	Berberu	Berberima
accusative	Berbera	Berbere
vocative	Berberu	Berberi
locative	Berberu	Berberima
instrumental	Berberom	Berberima

Derived terms

• bèrberskī
• Bèrbērka