kḍu

Tashelhit

Etymology

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Cognate with Central Atlas Tamazight ⴽⴹⵓ (kḍu, “to smell”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kdˤu/

Verb

kḍu (intensive aorist ttkḍu, preterite kḍi or kḍa, verbal noun akḍu or lkḍawt, Tifinagh spelling ⴽⴹⵓ, Arabic spelling كضو)

to smell
تيزّوا دا تّاوينت اضو ي تامّنت مقّار نّ تاڭّوڭِ، آڭايمرو ور ار تّ يتّكضو مقّار تقربِ.
honeybees can smell the scent of honey even if it is far away; but a drone cannot smell it even if it is nearby.
to be poisoned, to be infected
ايكضا اس الجّرح. ― His wound has become poisoned.

Derived terms

akḍu (“smelling”)

Related terms

aḍu (“smell”)
slla (“to hear”)
tinzrt (“nose”)
ẓṛ (“to see”)

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 1224a