imɣur

Kabyle

Root
m-ɣ-r
2 terms

Alternative forms

• imɣuṛ
• umɣur, umɣuṛ

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /imʁur/

Verb

imɣur (verbal noun temɣʷer or tumeqqʷrin or timeqqʷri)

1. to grow

   Mi ara yimɣur, yebɣa ad yuɣal d amussan.

   When he grows up, he wants to become a scientist.

2. to be big, large

   Meqqʷer wexxam nsen.

   Their house is big.

3. to be old

   Meqqʷret tmeṭṭut-ihin.

   That woman over there is old.

4. to be significant

References

• Association Culturelle Numidya (2025), “Amawal, dictionnaire kabyle-français en ligne”, in Amawal‎^[1], retrieved 2025
• Dallet, Jean-Marie (1982), Dictionnaire kabyle-français: parler des At Mangellat, Algérie (in French), Paris, France

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Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber *m-ɣ-r (“to be big, to grow”).

Cognate with Kabyle imɣur (“to be big, to grow”), Tarifit mɣar (“to be big, to grow”), Awjila mə̀qqər (“to be big”), Ghadames əmqór (“to be old”), Tuareg imɣar (“to be big (in size, age, social position)”), Nefusa moqqár (“to be big”), Sokna mâqqâr (“to grow”), Tetserret omǝṛ (“to be old”), and Zenaga yäṃuʔr (“to be big”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /imɣur/

Verb

imɣur (intensive aorist ttimɣur, preterite mqqur, verbal noun tamɣuryi, Tifinagh spelling ⵉⵎⵖⵓⵔ, Arabic spelling ايمغور)

1. to be big, great
2. to grow
3. to be old

Derived terms

• amqqran (“big, great”)
• amqqur (“veteran,notable”)
• amɣar (“chieftain”)
• anmɣar (“chief”)
• anmɣur (“influencial figure”)
• asmɣr (“enlargement, honoring”)
• imqquṛn (“big, great”)
• ssimɣur (“to make bigger, to enlarge, to honor”)
• tamɣart (“woman”)
• tamɣri (“authority, power”)
• tamɣuryi (“greatness”)
• timmuɣra (“chiefdom”)
• tummɣra (“greatness, pride”)

References

• Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 2 f—l (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/2) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1101