adrar
Kabyle
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Berber.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /adrar/
Noun
adrar m (plural idurar)
Inflection
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
Senhaja de Srair
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Berber.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /adrar/
Noun
adrar m (plural idraren or iduran or idurar, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| free state | adrar | idraren, iduran, idurar |
| annexed state | udrar | idraren, iduran, idurar |
References
- Gutova, Evgeniya; Byler, Jonathan (2025), “Senhaja de Srair - English Dictionary”, in Webonary[2], retrieved 2025
- Gutova, Evgeniya (2021) Senhaja Berber Varieties: Phonology, Morphology, and Morphosyntax (Thesis)[3], Paris, France: HAL
Tarifit
Alternative forms
- aḏrā — Central
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Berber.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /æðrar/, (Central) /æðraː/
Noun
adrar m (plural idurar, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ)
Inflection
Tashelhit
Etymology
Inherited from Medieval Tashelhit ءادرار (adrar, “mountain”), from Proto-Berber *a-dərar (“mountain”).
Cognate with Ghadames adurar (“mountain”), Senhaja de Srair adrar (“mountain, forest”), Northern Saharan Berber and Nefusa drar (“mountain”), Kabyle, Tarifit, Siwi, and Tuareg adrar (“mountain”). Within Pan-Berber, compare Guanche adara (“mountain”) and Ancient Libyan Δύρεν (Dúren, "the Atlas mountains").
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /adrar/
Noun
adrar m (construct state udrar, plural idrarn, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ, Arabic spelling آدرار)
- mountain
- آوال يغ يغلي د يدمارن، ايغلي س يدرارن
- awal iɣ iɣli d idmarn, iɣli s idrarn.
- when words leave (your) chest, they echo off the mountains.
Inflection
Derived terms
- abudrar (“mountaineer”)
- adrar n drn (“High Atlas”)
- adrar n iguzuln (“Anti-Atlas”)
- adrar wanukrin (“Ouanoukrim”)
- taldrar (“spring”)
See also
References
- 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, , →ISBN, page 73a
Tuareg
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Berber.
Noun
adrar m