Kabyle

See also: kabyle

English

Etymology

From Algerian Arabic قبايل‎, plural of قبيلة‎ (“tribe”).

Noun

Kabyle (plural Kabyles)

  1. A member of a Berber ethnic group inhabiting Algeria and Tunisia, speaking the Kabyle language.

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Adjective

Kabyle (comparative more Kabyle, superlative most Kabyle)

  1. Pertaining to these people or their language.
    • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 24:
      Revisiting his native land that year, Albert Camus was horrified to find Kabyle children fighting with dogs for the contents of a rubbish bin.

Proper noun

Kabyle

  1. A Northern Berber language of the Berber branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, spoken by over 3,000,000 people in Algeria; native name Taqbaylit.

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