Berber
See also: berber
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Etymology edit
From Arabic بَرْبَرِيّ (barbariyy, “Berber”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “non-Greek, foreign, barbarian”), apparently imitative of foreign speech.
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Berber (plural Berbers)
- A member of a particular ethnic group indigenous to northwest Africa.
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Member of northwest African ethnic group
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Berber
- A group of closely related Afroasiatic languages spoken in northern Africa, particularly Morocco and Algeria.
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Berber (not comparable)
- Of the Berber people, their culture, or their language.
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of the Berber people
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Berber m (plural Berbers)
- Berber, Berber person
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Berber n
- Berber, Berber languages
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Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from French berbère, from Arabic بَرْبَر (barbar), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “non-Greek”). Doublet of Barbar.
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Berber m (strong, genitive Berbers, plural Berber, feminine Berberin)
- Berber person
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Declension of Berber [masculine, strong]
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Berber m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Berbers or (with an article) Berber, feminine genitive Berber, plural Berbers or Berber)
- a surname
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Bèrber m (Cyrillic spelling Бѐрбер)
- Berber (member of the Berber ethnic group)
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Declension of Berber