tawwuri

• tagguri (“corvee”), taggʷri (“activity, occupation”), tawri, tawwri, tawuri (“job, business, work”)

Inherited from Proto-Berber *t-aβur-e (“work”), ^[1] the verbal noun of Proto-Berber *β-r (“to work”).

Compare Tamahaq tăhôré (“work”) & harew (“to work”), Tayert tăwré (“work”), Tawellemmet turăy (“work”), and Zenaga taʷrih, tōrih (“work”) & yūrih (“to work”).

• IPA^(key): /tawːuri/

tawwuri f (plural tiwwuriwin, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⵡⵡⵓⵔⵉ, Arabic spelling تاوّوري)

1. work, job, occupation, profession, chores

   Synonym: tamazzalt

   ميارغ تاوّوري اد. ― myarġ tawwuri yad. ― I’m used to this job.

   ڭّاورغ بلا تاوّوري. ― ggawrġ bla tawwuri. ― I stay without working.

• 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 2595b