amɣar

Tarifit

Etymology

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Noun

amɣar m (plural imɣaren, feminine equivalent tamɣart, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵎⵖⴰⵔ)

  1. father-in-law
  2. chieftain

Declension

Inflection of amɣar
singular plural
free state amɣar imɣaren
annexed state wamɣar yimɣaren
  • mɣar (“to be big, grown, old”)

Tashelhit

Etymology

Inherited from Medieval Tashelhit امغَر (amɣar, “old man”), from Proto-Berber *a-mɣar (“old man, father-in-law, chief”)[1]. Synchronically from imɣur (“to be old”).

Cognate with Zenaga ämġar (“chief”), Ghomara amɣaṛ (“old man, father-in-law”), Tarifit amɣar (“father-in-law, chieftain”), Kabyle amɣaṛ (“old man, chief”), Tuareg amɣar (“elder, senior, chief, chieftain, leader”), amǝqqar (“God”), and Tetserret aɣmar (“old person”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /amɣar/

Noun

amɣar m (plural imɣarn, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵎⵖⴰⵔ, Arabic spelling آمغار)

  1. chief, chieftain
    Synonyms: amzwar, ixf
    آمغار يڭا كرايڭان تقبيلت يلّا ڭيد يان، ايڭان اشلحي، ايڭ و تقبيلت، آر اس يتخلّاص المخزن، نتّان اد يفرّان ميدّن.
    amġar iga kra igan taqbilt illa gid yan, igan ašlḥiy, ig u tqbilt, ar as ittxllaṣ lmxzn, nttan ad ifrran mddn.
    there is a chief in every tribe. He is Chleuh, from the tribe itself. The Makhzen pays him, and he settles disputes between people.
  2. father-in-law
    Synonym: adggʷal

Inflection

Inflection of amɣar
singular plural
free state amɣar imɣarn
annexed state umɣar imɣarn

Derived terms

  • amɣar n tuga (“pasture chief”)
  • amɣar n wadan (“large intestine”)
  • amɣar n waman (“irrigation water distributor”)
  • amɣar n yiḍ (“night ogre”)
  • imɣarn (“notables”)
  • timmuɣra (“chiefdom”)

See also

References

  1. ^ Marijn van Putten (2019), “Introducción al estudio diacrónico del bereber”, in José Juan Batista Rodríguez, editor, Estudios sobre toponimia canaria prehispánica (in Spanish), Academia Canaria De La Lengua, →ISBN, page 300
  • 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 272
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