tamɣart

Senhaja de Srair

Root
m-ɣ-r
2 terms

Alternative forms

  • amɣart (Ketama)
  • tamɣar (Hmed)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber. By surface analysis, amɣar +‎ t- -t.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tamʁart/

Noun

tamɣart f (plural timɣarin, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⵎⵖⴰⵔⵜ)

  1. woman
    Synonym: tameṭṭut (Western Senhaja de Srair)
    Antonym: aryaz
    Tamɣart-nna tlaqiɣ teṣṣbaḥ. ― That woman I meet with is beautiful.
  2. wife
    Synonym: tameṭṭut (Western Senhaja de Srair)
    Antonym: aryaz
  3. (Western Senhaja de Srair) mother-in-law
    Synonyms: nnsiba, xatt, tadeggʷalt (Hmed, Seddat, Taghzut, Zerqet)

Declension

Inflection of tamɣart
singular plural
free state tamɣart timɣarin
annexed state temɣart temɣarin
  • amɣar (“chief, old person”)
  • meqqur (“big, old”)
  • mɣur (“to grow, to become old”)
    • ssemɣur (“to make grow, to make old”)
      • ttessemɣur (“to be made grow, to be made old”)

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

Tarifit

Alternative forms

  • tamɣāt

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber. By surface analysis, amɣar +‎ t- -t.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɑmɣart/

Noun

tamɣart f (plural timɣarin, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⵎⵖⴰⵔⵜ)

  1. woman
    Synonym: tameṭṭut
    Antonym: aryaz
  2. wife
    Synonym: tameṭṭut
    Antonym: aryaz
  3. mother-in-law
    Synonyms: taḍeggʷart, řalla

Declension

Inflection of tamɣart
singular plural
free state tamɣart timɣarin
annexed state temɣart temɣarin
  • amɣar (“father-in-law, chieftain”)
  • mɣar (“to be big, old”)

Tashelhit

Etymology

Inherited from Medieval Tashelhit تَمغَرت (tamɣart, “old woman, hoary woman”), from Proto-Berber *ta-mɣar-t (“old woman”), ultimately from Proto-Berber *m-ɣ-r (“to be old”) (whence imɣur).

Cognate with Ghomara tamɣart (“old woman, mother-in-law”), Tarifit and Senhaja de Srair tamɣart (“woman, wife, mother-in-law”), Tachawit, Central Atlas Tamazight, Kabyle, and Tuareg tamɣart (“old woman”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tamɣart/

Noun

tamɣart f (plural tumɣarin, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⵎⵖⴰⵔⵜ, Arabic spelling تامغارت)

  1. woman, wife, married woman
    Synonyms: tamṭṭut, tamttahlut, taldni
    تڭا تمغارت يصلحن زوند انژار، آينّا س تكشم، تاوي سرس البركة.
    tga tmġart iṣlḥn zund anẓar, aynna s tkšm, tawi srs lbaraka.
    a virtuous woman is like the rain; wherever she arrives, she brings blessings.

Inflection

Inflection of tamɣart
singular plural
free state tamɣart tumɣarin, timɣarin
annexed state tmɣart tmɣarin
  • afgan (“human”)
  • amɣar (“village chief”)
  • anmɣur (“influential figure”)
  • argaz (“man”)
  • imɣur (“to be old”)
  • tafruxt (“girl”)
  • tamɣra (“wedding”)
  • tawssart, tafqqirt (“elderly woman”)

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 2469a
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