aksum

Inherited from Proto-Berber *a-ksum.

• IPA^(key): /aksum/

aksum m (plural ikʷesman)

1. meat, flesh

• 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

Inherited from Proto-Berber *a-ksum.

aksum m

1. meat, flesh

aksum m (plural ikesman, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴽⵙⵓⵎ)

1. Western Tarifit form of aysum: meat

• agsum

Inherited from Proto-Berber *a-ksum, possibly from Proto-Afroasiatic *masak- (“skin”), with metathesis. Compare Proto-Semitic *mašk-.

Cognate with Tachawit, Central Atlas Tamazight, and Kabyle aksum (“meat, flesh”), Tunisian Berber, Northern Saharan Berber, and Tarifit aysum (“meat, flesh”), Ghadames aksǝm (“meat”), Awjila ksúm (“meat”), Sokna aksúm (“meat, flesh”).

• IPA^(key): /aksum/

aksum m (Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴽⵙⵓⵎ, Arabic spelling آكسوم)

1. (childish) meat

   Synonym: tifiyyi

• 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 222a