addad

Tashelhit

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /adːad/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Berber [Term?] (“standing, stopping”), a verbal noun of *ăβdəd (“to stand”). Synchronically from bdd (“to stand”).

Compare Awjila avdàd (“stopping”), Tarifit addud (“standing position”), Kabyle addud (“standing position”). For semantics, compare Latin status (“state, position, place”), and Arabic مَوْقِف (mawqif, “position, situation”).

Noun

addad m (annexed state waddad, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴷⴷⴰⴷ, Arabic spelling آدّاد)

1. place, position

   آمژ ادّاد نّك ― amẓ addad nnk ― Stay in your place.

2. state, situation, condition

Inflection

Inflection of addad

	singular	plural
free state	addad	addadn
annexed state	waddad	waddadn

Descendants

• → Kabyle: addad (“state (grammar)”)
  • Moroccan Amazigh: ⴰⴷⴷⴰⴷ (addad, “state”)

Etymology 2

Verbal noun of add (“to lower, to press”)

Cognate with Tayert and Tawellemmet addad (“pressing”) (verbal noun of adǝd (“to press”)).

Noun

addad m (annexed state waddad, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴷⴷⴰⴷ, Arabic spelling آدّاد)

1. lowering

   آدّاد ن وسماقّل. ― addad n usmaqql ― lowering the gaze

2. press (action of pressing)
3. a wad (used in firearms)

   ڭ ادّاد. ― g addad ― Insert a wad.

References

• Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 1 A–E (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/1) (in French), Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 65a