kkuẓ

Tashelhit

**Tashelhit numbers ^(edit)**
← 3	4	5 →
Cardinal: kkuẓ Ordinal: wiss kkuẓ

Etymology

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Cognate with Zenaga akkuẓ (“four”), Ghadames aqqoz (“four”), and Tuareg əkkoẓ (“four”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kːuzˤ/

Numeral

kkuẓ m (feminine kkuṣṭ, Tifinagh spelling ⴽⴽⵓⵥ, Arabic spelling كّوژ)

four
تژا، كّس سمّوس، سولن كّوژ.
tẓa, kks smmus suln kkuẓ.
five taken from nine makes four.

ايميغ ن ييضڭام لعدو يوتي اغ س كّوصط توال.
imiġ n yiḍgam lɛdu yuti yaġ s kkuṣṭ twal.
In yesterday's battle, the enemy outnumbered us four to one..

References

Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 3 m—š (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/3) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1239b