afrux
التعريفات والمعاني
== Ghomara ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic فرخ (farḵ), from Arabic فَرْخ (farḵ, “chick, young bird”).
=== Pronunciation ===
(Iɛraben) IPA(key): [ɛfɾʊχ]
=== Noun ===
afrux m (plural iferxan, diminutive afreyyex, feminine equivalent tafruxt)
chick, young chicken
child, boy
Synonym: aɛeyyal
==== Declension ====
=== References ===
Mourigh, Khalid (2015) A Grammar of Ghomara Berber (Thesis)[1], Leiden
== Kabyle ==
=== Alternative forms ===
afṛux
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Algerian Arabic فرخ (farḵ), from Arabic فَرْخ (farḵ, “chick, young bird”).
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /afrˤuχ/
=== Noun ===
afrux m (plural ifrax, feminine equivalent tafruxt)
chick, young bird
Synonyms: ičewčew, aferruǧ
bird (in general)
Synonym: agḍiḍ
(uncountable) couscous that is too fine
==== Inflection ====
=== References ===
Association Culturelle Numidya (2025), “Amawal, dictionnaire kabyle-français en ligne”, in Amawal[2], retrieved 2025
Dallet, Jean-Marie (1982), Dictionnaire kabyle-français: parler des At Mangellat, Algérie (in French), Paris, France
== Senhaja de Srair ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic فرخ (farḵ), from Arabic فَرْخ (farḵ, “chick, young bird”).
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /afruχ/
=== Noun ===
afrux m (plural iferxan, diminutive afriyyex, feminine equivalent tafruxt, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴼⵔⵓⵅ)
bird
Synonym: aḥemmir
Afrux itferfar x uxyam. ― The bird flies over the house.
young animal
==== Declension ====
=== References ===
Gutova, Evgeniya; Byler, Jonathan (2025), “Senhaja de Srair - English Dictionary”, in Webonary[3], retrieved 2025
Gutova, Evgeniya (2021) Senhaja Berber Varieties: Phonology, Morphology, and Morphosyntax (Thesis)[4], Paris, France: HAL
== Tarifit ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic فرخ (farḵ), from Arabic فَرْخ (farḵ, “chick, young bird”).
=== Noun ===
afrux m (plural ifarxan, feminine equivalent tafruxt, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴼⵔⵓⵅ)
boy, child
Synonyms: aniybu, aḥenjir, aḥḥram, aḥarmuc, arba
foal, colt
bird
==== Declension ====
== Tashelhit ==
=== Alternative forms ===
afruɣ
=== Etymology ===
Possibly inherited from Proto-Berber, from Hebrew אֶפְרוֹחַ ('efróakh, “chick”). Alternatively, borrowed from Arabic فَرْخ (farḵ, “chick, young bird”).
Compare Ghomara afrux (“boy, small bird”), Tarifit afrux (“child, foal”), Senhaja de Srair afrux (“bird, young (of an animal)”), Tunisian Berber afrux (“boy”), and Kabyle afṛux (“bird”).
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /afruχ/
=== Noun ===
afrux m (plural ifrxan, feminine equivalent tafruxt, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴼⵔⵓⵅ, Arabic spelling آفروخ)
boy, child, teenager
ايژلمض وفروخ اد ― iẓlmḍ ufrux ad ― this boy is clumsy.
male palm tree
Synonym: awtm
ايغُلي س كران وفروخ. ― iɣʷli s kran ufrux. ― He climbed a palm tree.
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=== References ===
Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 1 a—e (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/1) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 103b