tamɣart

Senhaja de Srair

Root
m-ɣ-r
2 terms

Alternative forms

• amɣart (Ketama)
• tamɣar (Hmed)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber. By surface analysis, amɣar +‎ t- -t.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tamʁart/

Noun

tamɣart f (plural timɣarin, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⵎⵖⴰⵔⵜ)

1. woman

   Synonym: tameṭṭut (Western Senhaja de Srair)

   Antonym: aryaz

   Tamɣart-nna tlaqiɣ teṣṣbaḥ. ― That woman I meet with is beautiful.

2. wife

   Synonym: tameṭṭut (Western Senhaja de Srair)

   Antonym: aryaz

3. (Western Senhaja de Srair) mother-in-law

   Synonyms: nnsiba, xatt, tadeggʷalt (Hmed, Seddat, Taghzut, Zerqet)

Declension

Inflection of tamɣart

	singular	plural
free state	tamɣart	timɣarin
annexed state	temɣart	temɣarin

Related terms

• amɣar (“chief, old person”)
• meqqur (“big, old”)
• mɣur (“to grow, to become old”)
  • ssemɣur (“to make grow, to make old”)
    • ttessemɣur (“to be made grow, to be made old”)

References

• Gutova, Evgeniya; Byler, Jonathan (2025), “Senhaja de Srair - English Dictionary”, in Webonary‎^[1], retrieved 2025
• Gutova, Evgeniya (2021) Senhaja Berber Varieties : phonology, Morphology, and Morphosyntax (Thesis)‎^[2], Paris, France: HAL

Tarifit

Alternative forms

• tamɣāt

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber. By surface analysis, amɣar +‎ t- -t.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑmɣart/

Noun

tamɣart f (plural timɣarin, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⵎⵖⴰⵔⵜ)

1. woman

   Synonym: tameṭṭut

   Antonym: aryaz

2. wife

   Synonym: tameṭṭut

   Antonym: aryaz

3. mother-in-law

   Synonyms: taḍeggʷart, řalla

Declension

Inflection of tamɣart

	singular	plural
free state	tamɣart	timɣarin
annexed state	temɣart	temɣarin

Related terms

• amɣar (“father-in-law, chieftain”)
• mɣar (“to be big, old”)

Tashelhit

Etymology

Inherited from Medieval Tashelhit تَمغَرت (tamɣart, “old woman, hoary woman”), from Proto-Berber [Term?] (“old woman”), ultimately from Proto-Berber *m-ɣ-r (“to be old”) whence Tashelhit imɣur (“to be old”).

Compare Ghomara tamɣaṛt (“old woman, mother-in-law”), Tarifit and Senhaja de Srair tamɣart (“woman, wife, mother-in-law”), Tachawit, Central Atlas Tamazight, and Kabyle tamɣart (“old woman”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tamɣart/

Noun

tamɣart f (plural tumɣarin or timɣarin, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⵎⵖⴰⵔⵜ, Arabic spelling تامغارت)

1. woman, wife

   Synonyms: tamṭṭut, taldni

   تڭا تمغارت يصلحن زوند انژار، آينّا س تكشم، تاوي سرس البركة.

   tga tmġart iṣlḥn zund anẓar, aynna s tkšm, tawi srs lbaraka.

   a virtuous woman is like the rain; wherever she arrives, she brings blessings.

2. married woman

   Synonyms: tamttahlut, taldni

   Antonyms: taɛzrit, tafruxt, taɛzzabt, tamguṭṭ

3. (Medieval Tashelhit) elderly woman

   Synonym: tawssart

Inflection

Inflection of tamɣart

	singular	plural
free state	tamɣart	tumɣarin, timɣarin
annexed state	tmɣart	tmɣarin

Related terms

• amɣar (“village chief”)
• anmɣur (“influential figure”)
• argaz (“man”)
• imɣur (“to be old”)
• tafruxt (“girl”)
• tamɣra (“wedding”)
• tawssart (“elderly woman”)

References

• Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 4 t—ẓ (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/4) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 2469a