tifawt
Tashelhit
Alternative forms
- tufawt
Etymology
Inherited from Medieval Tashelhit تُڢَوت (tufawt, “light”), from Proto-Berber [Term?] (“light”), ultimately from Proto-Afroasiatic *p-ʔ (“to shine”). Synchronically the verbal noun of faw (“to be luminous”)
Compare Tuareg tafawt (“illumination”) & tifawt (“daybreak, (early) morning”), Zenaga tuffägt, tuffäkt (“light”), Siwi tafiyt (“morning”), Ghadames ófa (“fire”), Awjila afiw (“fire”), Tarifit tfawt, tfawkt (“light, electricity”), Nefusa tfâut (“fire”), Sokna tifùt (“tomorrow”), Wolaytta póóʔ-uwa (“light”) & péʔ- (“to spend the day”) [1], Afar ífu (“light”), and Zayse-Zergulla pò (“light”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tifawt/
Noun
tifawt f (plural tifawin, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⵉⴼⴰⵡⵜ, Arabic spelling تيفاوت)
- light, illumination
- Synonyms: azzil, nnuṛ
- clear vision, solution, means of proof
- written act, written proof
Inflection
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| free state | tifawt | tifawin |
| annexed state | tifawt | tifawin |
Derived terms
- anfaw (“luminous”)
- ayt tifawt (“a shleuh tribe”)
- tifawin (“books,documents”)
- tifawt tazgzawt (“greenlight”)
See also
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, , →ISBN, page 2646b
- ^ A Descriptive Study of the Modern Wolaytta Language by Motomichi WAKASA. page 36,1007