adlis
Kabyle
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Northern Saharan Berber aḍlis (“lip”). Compare Ghadames aḍalis (“lip”). The word has shifted in meaning due to a scribal error. In the original work by R. Basset there seems to have been a mistake where lèvre (“lip”) was noted down as livre (“book”)[1].
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]adlis m (plural idlisen, feminine equivalent tadlist)
Inflection
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| free state | adlis | idlisen |
| annexed state | wedlis, udlis | yedlisen, yidlisen |
Derived terms
[edit]- tanedlist (“bookstore”)
Descendants
[edit]- → Moroccan Amazigh: ⴰⴷⵍⵉⵙ (adlis, “book”)
References
[edit]- Association Culturelle Numidya (2025), “Amawal, dictionnaire kabyle-français en ligne”, in Amawal[2], retrieved 2025
- Dallet, Jean-Marie (1982), Dictionnaire kabyle-français: parler des At Mangellat, Algérie (in French), Paris, France
Tarifit
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Kabyle adlis.
Noun
[edit]adlis m (plural idlisen, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴷⵍⵉⵙ)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| free state | adlis | idlisen |
| annexed state | wedlis | yidlisen |
Categories:
- Kabyle learned borrowings from Northern Saharan Berber
- Kabyle terms borrowed from Northern Saharan Berber
- Kabyle terms derived from Northern Saharan Berber
- Kabyle terms with IPA pronunciation
- Kabyle lemmas
- Kabyle nouns
- Kabyle masculine nouns
- Kabyle neologisms
- Tarifit terms borrowed from Kabyle
- Tarifit learned borrowings from Kabyle
- Tarifit terms derived from Kabyle
- Tarifit lemmas
- Tarifit nouns
- Tarifit masculine nouns
- Tarifit neologisms