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Definition of Berber

1. Noun. A member of an indigenous people of northern Africa.

2. Noun. A cluster of related dialects that were once the major language of northern Africa west of Egypt; now spoken mostly in Morocco.

Definition of Berber

1. n. A member of a race somewhat resembling the Arabs, but often classed as Hamitic, who were formerly the inhabitants of the whole of North Africa from the Mediterranean southward into the Sahara, and who still occupy a large part of that region; -- called also Kabyles. Also, the language spoken by this people.

Definition of Berber

1. Noun. A member of a particular ethnic group indigenous to northwest Africa. ¹

2. Proper noun. A group of closely related Afroasiatic languages spoken in northern Africa, particularly Morocco and Algeria. ¹

3. Adjective. Of the Berber people, their culture, or their language. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Berber

Bentleys Benton Benvenuto Cellini Benxi Benz Benzaiten Benzedrine Benzoin odoriferum Beograd Beotian

Beowulf Beowulfian Beradinelli's syndrome Berard's aneurysm Beraud's valve Berber Berberidaceae Berberis Berberis canadensis Berberis thunbergii

Berberis vulgaris Berberophone Berbice Creole Dutch Bercy Berenice Berg Bergamaschi

Literary usage of Berber

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Literature of Egypt and the Soudan from the Earliest Times to the Year by Ibrahim-Hilmy (1888)
"New large Scale Map of the Country from Korti to Khartum, berber, and Suakin, partly prepared from Maps issued by the Intelligence Branch of the War Office, ..."

2. Harvard African Studies by African Dept (1917)
"Identities with berber grammar are also to be observed in the Grand Canary. ... The possibility of (berber) azir, ezar being borrowed from Arabic is barred ..."

3. Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind by James Cowles Prichard (1851)
"M. Venture first published a tolerably copious specimen of the berber language, with a grammatical analysis, for which I must refer to his Memoir. ..."

4. Central Africa: Naked Truths of Naked People. An Account of Expeditions to by Charles Chaillé-Long (1876)
"After much fatigue we reach berber, having accomplished the distance in ... berber is a collection of low mud-huts, with here and there a building only that ..."

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