tirgit

• targit (“ember”), tirgict (“ash”)

Inherited from Proto-Berber *t-irrəɣ-t (“ember,”)^[1], from Proto-Berber *r-ɣ (“to be hot, to burn”) (whence rɣ (“to be hot”)).

Cognate with Ghomara tirgett (“ember”), Tarifit tirjet (“ember”), Ghadames tarǝǧǧit (“ember”), Tunisian Berber tiržin (“coal”), Senhaja de Srair t̠irrixt̠, t̠irɣit̠ (“ember”), Northern Saharan Berber tiṛṛəɣt (figuig), and Nefusa tiṛṛəɣt (“ember, coal”).

• IPA^(key): /tirɡit/

tirgit f (plural tirgin, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⵉⵔⴳⵉⵜ, Arabic spelling تيرڭيت)

1. ember, coal

   ايغ نوفا تاسا، ييليح اغ تيرڭيت؛ ايغ نوفا تيرڭيت، ييليح اغ تاسا.

   iġ nufa tasa, yiliḥ aġ tirgit; iġ nufa tirgit, yiliḥ aġ tasa.

   if we have a slice of liver, we are missing the ember and if we have the ember, we are missing the slice of liver.

• Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 2 f—l (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/2) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 2709b