tadunt

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tadunt f (usually uncountable, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⴷⵓⵏⵜ)

1. fat
2. grease

• tadwunt (Taznakht), taduwwunt (Gedmioua)

Inherited from Medieval Tashelhit تَادُنْتْ (tadunt, “grease, fat”), from Proto-Berber *ta-dβən-t (“grease, fat”).

Cognate with Tawellemmet and Tayert tădonăt (“fat”), Central Atlas Tamazight ⵜⴰⴷⵓⵏⵜ (tadunt, “fat”), Ghomara taḏunt (“fat”), Nefusa tadûnt (“grease, fat”), Tarifit and Northern Saharan Berber tadunt (“grease, fat”), Zenaga täđūn(ǝ)t (“grease”), Sokna tadént (“grease”), Siwi tademt (“grease”), and Tuareg tadhunt (“fat”).

• IPA^(key): /tadunt/

tadunt f (construct state tdunt, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⴷⵓⵏⵜ, Arabic spelling تادونت)

1. grease, fat, tallow

   آد ور تمّالت تادونت ي ووشّن.

   ad ur tmmalt tadunt i wuššn.

   you mustn't show the jackal the grease.

2. force, strength

   تادونت ا ينڭّسن، اورد اسكيون.

   tadunt a inggsn, urd askiwn

   It is the strength of the ram that gives power to its horn strikes, and not the horns themselves.

• Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 4 t—ẓ (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/4) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 2349b