Kabyle

See also: kabyle

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Algerian Arabic قبايل, plural of قبيلة (“tribe”).

Noun

Kabyle (plural Kabyles)

1. A member of a Berber ethnic group inhabiting Algeria and Tunisia, speaking the Kabyle language.

Translations

person

• Danish: kabyler c
• French: Kabyle (fr) m or f
• Kabyle: Aqbayli
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• Polish: Kabyl (pl) m, Kabylka (pl) f
• Portuguese: kabyle m or f

Adjective

Kabyle (comparative more Kabyle, superlative most Kabyle)

1. Pertaining to these people or their language.
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 24:

     Revisiting his native land that year, Albert Camus was horrified to find Kabyle children fighting with dogs for the contents of a rubbish bin.

Proper noun

Kabyle

1. A Northern Berber language of the Berber branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, spoken by over 3,000,000 people in Algeria; native name Taqbaylit.

Translations

language

• Arabic: ثَاقْبَايْلِيث (ṯāqbāylīṯ)
• Czech: kabylština
• Danish: kabylsk n
• Finnish: kabyyli (fi)
• French: kabyle (fr) m
• German: kabylische Sprache f, Kabylisch (de) n
• Hungarian: kabil (hu)
• Irish: Caibílis f
• Kabyle: Taqbaylit
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kabylsk m

  Nynorsk: kabylsk m

• Polish: kabylski (pl) m
• Portuguese: kabyle m
• Russian: кабильский (ru) (kabilʹskij)
• Slovak: kabylčina f
• Spanish: cabilio (es) m

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Kabyle terms
• Kabyle language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ethnologue entry for Kabyle, kab ⁠

Anagrams

• Blakey, blakey, bleaky