tasarut

Kabyle

Alternative forms

  • tasaruţ, tasarutt

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber *ta-s-aruʔ-t.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tasarut/

Noun

tasarut f (plural tisura)

  1. key

Inflection

Inflection of tasarut
singular plural
free state tasarut tisura
annexed state tsarut tsura

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)

  1. key
    تاساروت ن الدّونيت استّ يڭان د يلس.
    tasarut n ddunit a stt igan d ils.
    language is the key to the world.
  2. trigger
    لدي تاساروت.ldi tasarut!pull the trigger!
Inflection
Inflection of tasarut
singular plural
free state tasarut tisura
annexed state tsarut tsura

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Proto-Berber *arəʔ (to open)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tasarut/

Noun

tasarut f (plural tisura, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⵙⴰⵔⵓⵜ, Arabic spelling تاساروت)

  1. large irrigated plot of land

See also

References

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ 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, →DOI, →ISBN, page 2537a