asafar

Tashelhit

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber [Term?]. Synchronically the verbal noun of sifr (“to treat (a patient or illness)”).

Cognate with Central Atlas Tamazight and Kabyle asafar (“remedy, drug”), Tamasheq asăfar (“medicine, treatment”), Tetserret ašafaṛ (“medicine, remedy”), and Zenaga äššaˀFär (“medicine”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /asafar/

Noun

asafar m (plural isafarn, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵙⴰⴼⴰⵔ, Arabic spelling آسافار)

  1. medicine, remedy, drug
    زمّل تامّنت نّا، هاتي تڭا يّي اسافار.
    zmml tammnt nna, hati tga yyi asafar.
    keep that honey, it is a medicine for me.
  2. (figurative) solution
    Synonyms: afssay, afukku
    اور داري يلّا وسافار. ― ur dari illa usafar. ― i don't have the solution.

Inflection

Inflection of asafar
singular plural
free state asafar isafarn
annexed state usafar isafarn

Derived terms

  • asafar ijjan (“restorative remedy”)
  • asafar n tarwa (“fertility drug”)
  • bu usafar (“pharmacist”)
  • su asafar (“to take medicine”)

Descendants

  • → Moroccan Amazigh: ⴰⵙⴰⴼⴰⵔ (asafar, “medicine, remedy”)

See also

  • afrmli (“nurse”)
  • amaḍun (“sick, ill”)
  • aḍbib (“doctor”)
  • aṭṭan (“disease”)
  • jji (“to be healed”)
  • tammnt (“honey”)

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 398b
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