afrux

• afṛux

Borrowed from Algerian Arabic فرخ (farḵ), from Arabic فَرْخ (farḵ, “chick, young bird”).

• IPA^(key): /afrˤuχ/

afrux m (plural ifrax, feminine equivalent tafruxt)

1. chick, young bird

   Synonyms: ičewčew, aferruǧ

2. bird (in general)

   Synonym: agḍiḍ

3. (uncountable) couscous that is too fine

• 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

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic فرخ (farḵ, “young of an animal, fowl”), from Arabic فَرْخ (farḵ, “chick, young bird”).

• IPA^(key): /afruχ/

afrux m (plural iferxan, diminutive afriyyex, feminine equivalent tafruxt, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴼⵔⵓⵅ)

1. bird

   Synonym: aḥemmir

   Afrux itferfar x uxyam. ― The bird flies over the house.

2. young animal

• 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

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic فرخ (farḵ, “young of an animal, fowl”).

afrux m (plural ifarxan, feminine equivalent tafruxt, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴼⵔⵓⵅ)

1. boy, child

   Synonyms: aniybu, aḥenjir, aḥḥram, aḥarmuc, arba

2. foal, colt
3. bird

• afruɣ

Possibly inherited from Proto-Berber, from Hebrew אֶפְרוֹחַ ('efróakh, “chick”). Alternatively, borrowed from Arabic فَرْخ (farḵ, “chick, young bird”).

Compare Ghomara afrux (“boy, small bird”), Tarifit afrux (“child, foal”), Senhaja de Srair afrux (“bird, young (of an animal)”), Tunisian Berber afrux (“boy”), and Kabyle afṛux (“bird”).

• IPA^(key): /afruχ/

afrux m (plural ifrxan, feminine equivalent tafruxt, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴼⵔⵓⵅ, Arabic spelling آفروخ)

1. boy, child, teenager

   ايژلمض وفروخ اد ― iẓlmḍ ufrux ad ― this boy is clumsy.

2. male palm tree

   Synonym: awtm

   ايغُلي س كران وفروخ. ― iɣʷli s kran ufrux. ― He climbed a palm tree.

• 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 103b