rg

Tashelhit

Etymology

From earlier Tashelhit *wrg, borrowed from a Zenaga-like Berber substratum form *äwrəg, ultimately from Proto-Berber *ăβrəǵ (“to grind, crush”)[1]. Doublet of bri (“to grind, to crush”).

Compare Central Atlas Tamazight bry (“to grind”), Tarifit bri, brey (“to crush”), Kabyle bri (“to crush, to pestle”), Ghadames aβrǝg (“to grind, to pestle)”), and Awjila avérg (“pestle (for crushing dates)”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɡ/

Verb

rg (intensive aorist rrag, verbal noun awrag or arrag, Tifinagh spelling ⵔⴳ, Arabic spelling رڭ)

  1. to grind, to crush
    Synonym: bri
    رڭينت ڭيد الموس انّ، كّسنت ڭيس تيژنين
    rgint gid almus ann, kksnt gis tiẓnin
    They crush the Argan kernel and remove the white almonds.

Derived terms

  • argan (“Argan”)
  • azrg (“mill”)
  • taggunt (“stone, pebbles used for crushing kernels”)

References

  1. ^ Lameen Souag (2023) Argan as a substratum word. Etudes et Documents Berbères 49-50, pp. 409-414
  • 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 1882b
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