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Kabyle
Noun
adlis m (construct wedlis, plural idlisen, construct plural yidlisen)
- book
Derived terms
Tarifit
Etymology
Borrowed from Northern Saharan Berber aḍlis (“lip”). Compare Ghadames aḍalis (“lip”).
Noun
adlis m (Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴷⵍⵉⵙ, plural idlisen)
- (neologism) book
- Synonym: řkitab
Declension
Trivia
The word adlis has shifted in meaning due to a scribal error. In the original work by R. Basset there seems to have been a mistake where lèvre (“lip”) was noted down as livre (“book”).
References
- Lanfry, Jacques (1973) Ghadamès: Glossaire (parler des Ayt waziten), France: le Fichier périodique, page 82
- Basset, René (1887) Notes de lexicographie berbère: Vocabulaire du Touat et du Gourara, argot du Mzab, dialecte des Touaregs Aouelimmiden. (Quatrième série), Impr. nationale, page 57
- Achab, Ramdane (1996) La néologie lexicale berbère: 1945-1995, Paris: Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 96