itri

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈi.tɾi]

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itri m (uncountable)

1. yttrium

Inherited from Proto-Berber.

• IPA^(key): /itri/

itri m (plural itran)

1. star
2. white spot on the eye
3. diamond-shaped decorative motif

• 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

Inherited from Proto-Berber.

itri m (plural itran, Tifinagh spelling ⵉⵜⵔⵉ)

1. star

Inherited from Proto-Berber [Term?] (“star”). Further etymology is Uncertain.

• Perhaps inherited from Proto-Afroasiatic. Compare Proto-Chadic *təra (“star”), whence Hausa tàurārṑ (“star”); and Proto-Semitic *ʕaṯtar- (“Astarte”).

• Or derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr (“star”).

Cognate with Zenaga äđäri (“star”), Tuareg atăr, atri (“star”), Tetserret atri (“star”), Central Atlas Tamazight ⵉⵜⵔⵉ (itri, “star”), Ghadames iri (“star”), Sokna îri (“star”), Tarifit itri (“star”).

• IPA^(key): /itri/

itri m (plural itran, feminine equivalent titrit, Tifinagh spelling ⵉⵜⵔⵉ, Arabic spelling ايتري)

1. star

   آر يتّانّاي يتران. ― ar ittannay itran. ― he's watching the stars.

• 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 1163b