Adjacent Words

Berber definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a member of an indigenous people of northern Africa
2: a cluster of related dialects that were once the major language of northern Africa west of Egypt; now spoken mostly in Morocco

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: ultimately from Arabic barbar Date: 1732 1. a member of any of various peoples living in northern Africa west of Tripoli 2. a. a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family comprising languages spoken by various peoples of northern Africa and the Sahara (as the Tuaregs and the Kabyles) b. any one of the Berber languages

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & adj. --n. 1 a member of the indigenous mainly Muslim Caucasian peoples of N. Africa. 2 the language of these peoples. --adj. of the Berbers or their language. Etymology: Arab. barbar

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Berber Ber"ber, n. [See Barbary.] A member of a race somewhat resembling the Arabs, but often classed as Hamitic, who were formerly the inhabitants of the whole of North Africa from the Mediterranean southward into the Sahara, and who still occupy a large part of that region; -- called also Kabyles. Also, the language spoken by this people.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(Berbers) Berber means belonging or relating to a particular Muslim people in North Africa, or to their language or customs. ADJ • A Berber is a person from the Berber community. N-COUNT