tagant

Estonian

Etymology

Exessive of taga (“behind”).

Adverb

tagant (not comparable)

from the back, from behind
Teda oli nurga tagant näha.
You could see him from behind the corner.

Tashelhit

Etymology

Inherited from Medieval Tashelhit تكانت (tagant, “forest”), from Proto-Berber.

Cognate with Central Atlas Tamazight tagant (“forest”), Tarifit taɣent (“forest”), Senhaja de Srair taggant (“mock privet”), Ghomara tagant (“bush, douma plant”), Zenaga gänä, taʔgänt, ägunnih (“forest, large forest”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /taɡant/

Noun

tagant f (plural taganin, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⴳⴰⵏⵜ, Arabic spelling تاڭانت)

forest
Synonym: lxla

كّان اكُّ ميدّن تاڭانت، اورّيند، نتّان ا يغامان ڭيس.
kkan akkʷ mddn tagant, urrin d, nttan a iġaman gis
everyone went to the forest and came back, but he stayed there.
uninhabited place
Synonym: lxla

Inflection

Inflection of **tagant**
	singular	plural
free state	tagant	taganin, tigina
annexed state	tagant	taganin, tigina

Derived terms

agan (“vast forest”)
aydi n tagant (“jackal”)
bu tagant (“wild boar”)
fk i tagant (“to wander”)
iġʷyal n tagant (“wild donkeys”)
timijja n tagant (“species of wild mint”)

See also

akal (“earth”)
argan (“argan”)
lhwaych (“animals”)
taddagt (“tree”)

References

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 2368a