Kabyle

See also: kabyle

English

Etymology

From Arabic قَبَائِل (qabāʔil, “tribes”), plural of قَبِيلَة (qabīla, “tribe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈbaɪl/
• Rhymes: -aɪl

Noun

Kabyle (plural Kabyles)

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

   Synonym: Kabylian

Translations

person

• Arabic: قَبَائِلِيّ m (qabāʔiliyy)

  Hijazi Arabic: قَبَايْلي (gabāyli)

• Catalan: cabilenc (ca) m
• Danish: kabyler c
• Esperanto: kabilo
• French: Kabyle (fr) m or f
• German: Kabyle m, Kabylin f
• Greek: Καβύλος (el) m (Kavýlos)
• Italian: cabillo m, cabilla f
• Kabyle: ⵄⵇⴱⴰⵢⵍⵉ (Ɛqbayli)
• Latin: cabylus
• Marathi: कबाइल m (kabāil)
• Polish: Kabyl (pl) m, Kabylka (pl) f
• Portuguese: kabyle m or f
• Sicilian: caviḍḍu m, caviḍḍa f

Adjective

Kabyle (comparative more Kabyle, superlative most Kabyle)

1. Pertaining to these people or their language.

   Synonym: Kabylian

   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 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.

Translations

pertaining to these people or their language

• Catalan: cabilenc (ca)
• French: kabyle (fr)
• Kabyle: ⴰⵇⴱⴰⵢⵍⵉ (aqbayli)
• Marathi: कबाइल (kabāil)

Proper noun

Kabyle

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

   Synonym: Kabylian

Translations

language

• Arabic: قَبَائِلِيَّة (qabāʔiliyya)

  Hijazi Arabic: قَبَايْلي (gabāyli)

• Catalan: cabilenc (ca) m
• Czech: kabylština
• Danish: kabylsk n
• Esperanto: kabila lingvo, la kabila
• Finnish: kabyyli (fi)
• French: kabyle (fr) m
• German: kabylische Sprache f, Kabylisch (de) n
• Hungarian: kabil (hu)
• Icelandic: kabýlska (is) f
• Irish: Caibílis f
• Kabyle: ⵜⴰⵇⴱⴰⵢⵍⵉⵜ (Taqbaylit)
• Marathi: कबाइल f (kabāil)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kabylsk m

  Nynorsk: kabylsk m

• Polish: kabylski (pl) m
• Portuguese: kabyle m
• Russian: кабильский (ru) (kabilʹskij)
• Slovak: kabylčina f
• Spanish: cabilio (es) m
• Swedish: kabyliska (sv) c

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Kabyle terms
• Ethnologue entry for Kabyle, kab ⁠

Derived terms

• Kabylia
  • Kabylian

Further reading

• Kabyle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Kabyle language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Blakey, blakey, bleaky

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.bil/

Noun

Kabyle m or f by sense (plural Kabyles)

1. Kabyle (person)

German

Pronunciation

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Noun

Kabyle m (mixed, genitive Kabylen, plural Kabylen, feminine Kabylin)

1. Kabyle
   • 2017 August 18, Stefan Hochgesand, “Neuer Roman von Édouard Louis: „Ich hasse das Schreiben“”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Édouard will eigentlich allein sein, doch der Atem, der Schweiß, das Charisma des Mannes verlocken ihn solchermaßen, dass er den quasi Unbekannten doch mit auf sein Zimmer nimmt. Reda heißt er. Er legt Wert dar­auf Kabyle, kein Araber, zu sein.

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Declension

Declension of Kabyle [masculine, mixed]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Kabyle	die	Kabylen
genitive	eines	des	Kabylen	der	Kabylen
dative	einem	dem	Kabyle	den	Kabylen
accusative	einen	den	Kabyle	die	Kabylen

Further reading

• “Kabyle” in Duden online
• “Kabyle” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache