bezzaf

Kabyle

Etymology

Borrowed from Algerian Arabic بالزاف (bezzāf), from Arabic بِالْجُزَاف (bi-l-juzāf), ultimately from Classical Persian گَزَاف (gazāf, “extravagant, excessive, exorbitant”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bəzːaf/

Adverb

bezzaf

  1. too much

References

  • 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
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