taskʷflt

Tashelhit

Alternative forms

  • askfl, tasukflt

Etymology

Tool noun of Medieval Tashelhit *kfel. Compare takflawt (ascension).

Noun

taskʷflt f (plural tiskʷfal, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⵙⴽⵯⴼⵍⵜ, Arabic spelling تاسكُفلت)

  1. stair
    Synonym: drja
  2. degree

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 2545b
  • Ibn Tunart (a. 1172), Kamal Naït Zerad, Salim Lounissi, Salem Djemai, compilers, Numérisation du lexique arabo-berbère d'Ibn Tunart[1], published 2020