tamda

• temda (Ketama)

Inherited from Proto-Berber.

• IPA^(key): /tamda/

tamda f (Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⵎⴷⴰ)

1. puddle; a natural hole dug by a river in winter (when it rains) which can dry up in summer

   Synonyms: taḥeffirt n waman, abiyyar (Bunsar, Ketama, Seddat)

• 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

From Proto-Berber [Term?] (“lake”).

Cognate with Senhaja de Srair tamda, temda (“puddle”), Ghomara tamda (“lake”), Sokna támda (“garden”), Ghadames tamáda (“garden in the palm groves”), Chenoua hamḍa (“lake”), and Nefusa tamdît (“fig tree”).

• IPA^(key): /tamda/

tamda f (construct state tmda, plural timdwin, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⵎⴷⴰ, Arabic spelling تامدا)

1. lake

   تامدا غ يلغي وفروخ لّي آياد

   tamda ġ ilġi afrux lli ayad.

   this is the lake where that boy drowned.

2. lagoon

   ايرور ي تمدا، ايكشم ي ييلّ.

   irur i tmda, ikšm i yill.

   he fled the lagoon, he found himself at the sea.

3. hollow

• 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 2465b