Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Berber people of northeast Algeria.
- noun The Berber language of this people.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of a Berber race dwelling in Algeria, particularly in the mountains of the coast.
- noun A dialect of Berber, spoken by many of the Kabyles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Ethnol.) A Berber, as in Algiers or Tunis. See
Berber .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A member of the ethnic group that speaks the Kabyle language.
- proper noun A Northern Berber language of the
Berber branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, spoken by over 3,000,000 people inAlgeria ; native nameTaqbaylit .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I pushed down my assumptions about what was being thought of me in La Bague de Kenza and ordered a savory crepe, trying to pronounce the name in Kabyle, m'hajjeb, which is written phonetically on a plastic tag in front of the display.
Five Stops on Line 2, Ch 1: Qalb elouz Jennifer Solheim 2011
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I pushed down my assumptions about what was being thought of me in La Bague de Kenza and ordered a savory crepe, trying to pronounce the name in Kabyle, m'hajjeb, which is written phonetically on a plastic tag in front of the display.
Five Stops on Line 2, Ch 1: Qalb elouz Jennifer Solheim 2011
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Indeed, the word Targhee seems to have the same signification as Kabyle, that is, "tribe," or "nation," both words denoting people of the same original stock.
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828
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I was always a bit shy and hesitant when I ordered from the women who worked in this shop, my illiteracy in Kabyle, my obvious non-French accent — it was much more humbling, my awkwardness there, than having my mistakes corrected in the regular French bakeries, uuuuune baguette, pas UN, mademoiselle!
Five Stops on Line 2, Ch 1: Qalb elouz Jennifer Solheim 2011
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The pastry shop is called La Bague de Kenza, the ring of treasure, kenza neither French nor Arabic but Kabyle, the language spoken by people from the mountains in Algeria.
Five Stops on Line 2, Ch 1: Qalb elouz Jennifer Solheim 2011
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I got lost in the sound of French mixed with Kabyle as I waited.
Five Stops on Line 2, Ch 1: Qalb elouz Jennifer Solheim 2011
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The pastry shop is called La Bague de Kenza, the ring of treasure, kenza neither French nor Arabic but Kabyle, the language spoken by people from the mountains in Algeria.
Five Stops on Line 2, Ch 1: Qalb elouz Jennifer Solheim 2011
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Many Kabyle and increasing numbers of Arabs are becoming Christian believers.
Mission Researchers Respond to the Muslim Demographic Video 2009
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I was always a bit shy and hesitant when I ordered from the women who worked in this shop, my illiteracy in Kabyle, my obvious non-French accent — it was much more humbling, my awkwardness there, than having my mistakes corrected in the regular French bakeries, uuuuune baguette, pas UN, mademoiselle!
Five Stops on Line 2, Ch 1: Qalb elouz Jennifer Solheim 2011
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I got lost in the sound of French mixed with Kabyle as I waited.
Five Stops on Line 2, Ch 1: Qalb elouz Jennifer Solheim 2011
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