adrar

See also: ådrar and aðrar

Kabyle

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /adrar/

Noun

adrar m (plural idurar)

  1. mountain

Inflection

Inflection of adrar
singular plural
free state adrar idurar
annexed state wedrar idurar

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)

  1. mountain
    Adrar inneqṣem g wammas.The mountain is split into two.
  2. (Ketama) forest
    Synonym: amayu

Declension

Inflection of adrar
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

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /æðrar/, (Central) /æðraː/

Noun

adrar m (plural idurar, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ)

  1. mountain

Inflection

Inflection of adrar
singular plural
free state adrar idurar
annexed state wedrar idurar

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)

  1. 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

Inflection of adrar
singular plural
free state adrar idrarn
annexed state udrar idrarn

Derived terms

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, →DOI, →ISBN, page 73a

Tuareg

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber.

Noun

adrar m

  1. mountain