Kabyle
See also: kabyle
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From Arabic قَبَائِل (qabāʔil, “tribes”), plural of قَبِيلَة (qabīla, “tribe”).
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Kabyle (plural Kabyles)
- A member of a Berber ethnic group inhabiting Algeria and Tunisia, speaking the Kabyle language.
- Synonym: Kabylian
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Kabyle (comparative more Kabyle, superlative most Kabyle)
- 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.
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pertaining to these people or their language
Proper noun edit
Kabyle
- 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
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- Kabyle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Kabyle language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Kabyle m or f by sense (plural Kabyles)
- Kabyle (person)
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Kabyle m (mixed, genitive Kabylen, plural Kabylen, feminine Kabylin)
- 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 of Kabyle [masculine, mixed]