abrid

Inherited from Proto-Berber, possibly from Early Medieval Latin verēda (“path, main road”).

• IPA^(key): /abrid/

abrid m (plural iberdan or ibriden, feminine equivalent tabriṭ)

1. path, way, road

   Synonym: aɣaras

2. street

   Synonym: azniq

3. trail

   Synonym: tazribt

4. method, solution
5. time (occasion, instance)

The plural ibriden is rare and generally only used in poetry.

• 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

abrid

1. second-person plural imperative of abrir

• IPA^(key): /abrid/

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abrid m (plural iberdan)

1. road

Inherited from Proto-Berber, possibly from Early Medieval Latin verēda (“path, main road”).

Cognate with Central Atlas Tamazight ⴰⴱⵔⵉⴷ (abrid, “road”), Tashelhit abrid (“road, path”), Nefusa brid (“country road”), Awjila tebarut (“road”), Tamasheq abrid (“road”).

• IPA^(key): /æbrɪð/, (Central) /æβrɪð/

abrid m (plural ibriden, diminutive tabritt, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴱⵔⵉⴷ)

1. road, path
2. way, passage

• tabritt (“path”)

Inherited from Proto-Berber, possibly from Early Medieval Latin verēda (“path, main road”), from Latin veredus (“courier's horse”). Unrelated to Arabic دَرْب (darb, “path”), and perhaps to Zenaga täbäräT (“path, passage”) and its cognates.

Cognate with Tarifit, Central Atlas Tamazight, Kabyle, and Tachawit abrid (“road, path”), Nefusa brid (“country road”), Tayert ăbarid, abrid (“road”).

• IPA^(key): /abrid/

abrid m (plural ibridn, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴱⵔⵉⴷ, Arabic spelling آبريد)

1. road

   Synonym: aɣaras

   س تاما وبريد. ― s tama ubrid. ― at the edge of the road.

• Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 1 a—e (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/1) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 46a