aherdan

Senhaja de Srair

Etymology

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic هرد (hrad, “to chew noisily, to devour, to beat, to rip violently”), from Arabic هَرَدَ (harada, “to tear, to lacerate, to rip”). The nominal formation and the meaning dog have not been attested in dialectal Arabic, and are probably Berber-internal developments.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aɦərdan/

Noun

aherdan m (plural iherdanen, feminine equivalent taherdant, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵀⴻⵔⴷⴰⵏ)

  1. dog
    Synonyms: aqezzun, ḥerraz (Ketama)
    Ɣur-i aherdan. ― I have a dog.

Declension

Inflection of aherdan
singular plural
free state aherdan iherdanen
annexed state uherdan iherdanen
  • aherdan n waman (“seal, giant water bug”, literally “dog of the water”)

References

  • Gutova, Evgeniya; Byler, Jonathan (2025), “Senhaja de Srair - English Dictionary”, in Webonary‎[1], retrieved 2025
  • Gutova, Evgeniya (2021) Senhaja Berber Varieties: Phonology, Morphology, and Morphosyntax (Thesis)‎[2], Paris, France: HAL
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