tayri

Learned borrowing from another Berber language^[1]. Compare Tashelhit tayri.

• IPA^(key): /tajri/

tayri f (usually uncountable)

1. (neologism) love

   Synonym: lemḥibba

• Association Culturelle Numidya (2025), “Amawal, dictionnaire kabyle-français en ligne”, in Amawal‎^[2], retrieved 2025

• tiri

Inherited from Proto-Berber [Term?] (“love”), verbal noun of *əβr (“to want, to love”). Synchronically the verbal noun of iri (“to want, to love”).

Cognates include Tuareg tarha (“love”), Ghadames aβerri (“love, desire”), Central Atlas Tamazight ⵜⴰⵢⵔⵉ (tayri), ⵜⵉⵔⵉ (tiri, “love, desire”), and possibly Zenaga uḅḅǝr (“passion, great love”).

• IPA^(key): /tajri/

tayri f (Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⵢⵔⵉ, Arabic spelling تايري)

1. love, desire

   نكّ تايري ن تمازيرت ينو ار لموت، اولا اوال اد ا ساوالغ، آر يسّن تّاراغ.

   nkk tayri n tmazirt inu ar lmut, ula awal ad a sawalġ, ar issn ttaraġ.

   for life, for the love of my homeland, i will consecrate myself as well for this language that i speak and write.

2. will, wish

   س المِقدار ن تايري ن ربّي. ― s lmiqdar n tayri n ṛbbi. ― According to God's will.

• 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 2605b