tasarut
Kabyle
Alternative forms
- tasaruţ, tasarutt
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Berber *ta-s-aruʔ-t.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tasarut/
Noun
tasarut f (plural tisura)
Inflection
References
- Association Culturelle Numidya (2025), “Amawal, dictionnaire kabyle-français en ligne”, in Amawal[2], retrieved 2025
- Dallet, Jean-Marie (1982), Dictionnaire kabyle-français: parler des At Mangellat, Algérie (in French), Paris, France
Tashelhit
Etymology 1
Inherited from Medieval Tashelhit تَاسَرُتْ (tasarut, “key”)[1], from Proto-Berber *ta-s-aruʔ-t (“key”)[2], the instrument noun of Proto-Berber *arəʔ (“to open”).
Cognate with Ghomara, Central Atlas Tamazight, and Kabyle tasarut (“key”), Tarifit tsarut (“key”), Tetserret tṣǝṣṣarut (“key”), and Zenaga oʔräri (“window”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tasarut/
Noun
tasarut f (plural tisura, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⵙⴰⵔⵓⵜ, Arabic spelling تاساروت)
- key
- تاساروت ن الدّونيت استّ يڭان د يلس.
- tasarut n ddunit a stt igan d ils.
- language is the key to the world.
- trigger
- لدي تاساروت. ― ldi tasarut! ― pull the trigger!
Inflection
Etymology 2
Ultimately from Proto-Berber *arəʔ (“to open”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tasarut/
Noun
tasarut f (plural tisura, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⵙⴰⵔⵓⵜ, Arabic spelling تاساروت)
See also
References
- ^ Ibn Tunart (a. 1172), Kitāb Al-Asmā’[1], sourced from Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme, Cité numérique de la Méditerranée (Cinumed), page 22
- ^ Marijn van Putten (2019), “Introducción al estudio diacrónico del bereber”, in José Juan Batista Rodríguez, editor, Estudios sobre toponimia canaria prehispánica (in Spanish), Academia Canaria De La Lengua, →ISBN, page 303
- 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, , →ISBN, page 2537a