mezyan

Senhaja de Srair

Etymology

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic مزيان (mizyān), the active participle of زيان (zyān, “to become beautiful”). By surface analysis, m- +‎ zyan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /məzjan/

Adjective

mezyan (feminine mezyana, common plural mezyanin, Tifinagh spelling ⵎⴻⵣⵢⴰⵏ)

  1. good, nice
    Ɣur-es lektaba mezyana. ― He has good handwriting.
  2. beautiful
    Synonym: zwin

Declension

Inflection of mezyan
singular plural
masculine mezyan mezyanin
feminine mezyana mezyanin

Adverb

mezyan (Tifinagh spelling ⵎⴻⵣⵢⴰⵏ)

  1. properly, well
    Sencfeɣ-t mezyan. ― I plucked (feathers from) him well.
  • zwin (“beautiful, attractive”)
  • zyan (“to be nice, to be beautiful”)
    • (causative) ziyyen (“to make beautiful”)

References

  • Gutova, Evgeniya; Byler, Jonathan (2025), “Senhaja de Srair - English Dictionary”, in Webonary‎[1], retrieved 2025
  • Gutova, Evgeniya (2021) Senhaja Berber Varieties: Phonology, Morphology, and Morphosyntax (Thesis)‎[2], Paris, France: HAL
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