fulki

Tashelhit

Alternative forms

Etymology

Perhaps from Latin pulcher (“beautiful, fair, noble”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fulki/

Verb

fulki (intensive aorist ttfulkuy, verbal noun afulki, Tifinagh spelling ⴼⵓⵍⴽⵉ, Arabic spelling فولكي)

  1. to be beautiful, to be good, to be nice
    Synonyms: ẓil, cwu

Derived terms

  • afalkay (“beautiful, good”)
  • afulki (“beauty, goodness”)
  • sfulki (“to beautify, to embellish, to improve”)

References

  • Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 2 f—l (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/2) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 904
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