tamurt

Inherited from Proto-Berber *ta-mur-t (“country, land”), from Proto-Afroasiatic *m-r.

• IPA^(key): /tamurt/

tamurt f (plural timura)

1. land, earth, ground
2. country

   Yeǧǧa tamurt. ― He left the country.

• Association Culturelle Numidya (2025), “Amawal, dictionnaire kabyle-français en ligne”, in Amawal‎^[1], retrieved 2025
• Dallet, Jean-Marie (1982), Dictionnaire kabyle-français: parler des At Mangellat, Algérie (in French), Paris, France

tamurt f (plural timura)

1. country, earth

tamurt f (plural timura, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⵎⵓⵔⵜ)

1. alternative form of tammurt

• IPA^(key): /tamurt/

From amur.

tamurt f (plural timurin, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⵎⵓⵔⵜ, Arabic spelling تامورت)

1. spear, lance

   Alternative form: amur (“portion, arrow”)

   Synonym: aqnaw

Learned borrowing from Moroccan Amazigh ⵜⴰⵎⵓⵔⵜ (tamurt, “country, land”), from a Berber language. Compare Kabyle tamurt (“country, land”).

tamurt f (plural timurin, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⵎⵓⵔⵜ, Arabic spelling تامورت)

1. (neologism) country, nation, state

   Synonym: tamazirt

• 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 2488a