mnnaw

Tashelhit

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber [Term?].

Cognate with Zenaga männäg (“how much”), and Ghadames mennaw (“some”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mnːaw/

Adverb

mnnaw (Tifinagh spelling ⵎⵏⵏⴰⵡ, Arabic spelling منّاو)

  1. (interrogative) how many, how much
    mnnaw mddn ad d uškan? ― how many people came?
  2. several, many, a lot
    llan dars mnnaw igran. ― he owns many plots of land.

Derived terms

  • yan mnnaw (“some”)

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 1756a
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