ɣrs

Tashelhit

Etymology

Inherited from Medieval Tashelhit غرس (ɣres, “to cut, to slaughter”), from Proto-Berber *ăɣrəs (“to cut, to slaughter”).

Cognate with Awjila əɣrə́š (“to slaughter”), Ghomara ɣres (“to slaughter”), Nefusa áġres (“to slaughter”), Ghadames ăɣrəs (“to immolate, to slaughter”), Northern Saharan Berber ɣers (“to sacrifice”), Tetserret aɣrəs (“to cross, to go across”), Tawellemmet and Tayert ǝɣrǝs (“to cut, to cross”), Tamasheq ăɣrǝs (“to slaughter, to cut, to cross”), and Zenaga oʔrəš (“to be slaughtered”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɣrs/

Verb

ɣrs (intensive aorist qqrs or qqrus, verbal noun tiɣrsi, Tifinagh spelling ⵖⵔⵙ, Arabic spelling غرس)

(constructed with i) to slaughter, to butcher, to sacrifice
ايغ ور ودين يحوليين، نغرس ي يموڭاين.
iġ ur wdin iḥuliyn, nġrs i imugayn.
if the sheep are not enough, the bovines are slaughtered instead.

Derived terms

amqqrs (“slaughterer”)
amtɣrs (“throat”)
amɣras (“bottom of a ravine”)
amɣrsi (“carotid”)
amɣrus (“the slaughtered animal”)
anɣrs (“carotid”)
asɣrs (“throat”)
aɣaras (“road”)
tiɣrsi (“slaughter, sacrifice”)
tiɣrsi n tfiyyi (“Rheumatism”)

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 960b