imɣur

Kabyle

Root
m-ɣ-r
2 terms

Alternative forms

imɣuṛ
umɣur, umɣuṛ

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /imʁur/

Verb

imɣur (verbal noun temɣʷer or tumeqqʷrin or timeqqʷri)

to grow
Mi ara yimɣur, yebɣa ad yuɣal d amussan.
When he grows up, he wants to become a scientist.
to be big, large
Meqqʷer wexxam nsen.
Their house is big.
to be old
Meqqʷret tmeṭṭut-ihin.
That woman over there is old.
to be significant

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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Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber *m-ɣ-r (“to be big, to grow”).

Cognate with Kabyle imɣur (“to be big, to grow”), Tarifit mɣar (“to be big, to grow”), Awjila mə̀qqər (“to be big”), Ghadames əmqór (“to be old”), Tuareg imɣar (“to be big (in size, age, social position)”), Nefusa moqqár (“to be big”), Sokna mâqqâr (“to grow”), Tetserret omǝṛ (“to be old”), and Zenaga yäṃuʔr (“to be big”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /imɣur/

Verb

imɣur (intensive aorist ttimɣur, preterite mqqur, verbal noun tamɣuryi, Tifinagh spelling ⵉⵎⵖⵓⵔ, Arabic spelling ايمغور)

to be big, great
to grow
to be old

Derived terms

amqqran (“big, great”)
amqqur (“veteran,notable”)
amɣar (“chieftain”)
anmɣar (“chief”)
anmɣur (“influencial figure”)
asmɣr (“enlargement, honoring”)
imqquṛn (“big, great”)
ssimɣur (“to make bigger, to enlarge, to honor”)
tamɣart (“woman”)
tamɣri (“authority, power”)
tamɣuryi (“greatness”)
timmuɣra (“chiefdom”)
tummɣra (“greatness, pride”)

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 1101