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Berber2|ˈbɜːbə(r)|
[For derivation see Barbary.]
A. n. A name given by the Arabs to the aboriginal people west and south of Egypt; applied by modern ethnologists to any member of the great North African stock to which belong the aboriginal races of Barbary and the Tuwariks of the Sahara.
1842Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 261 In the Northern parts of Atlas, these people are called Berbers. 1883Cust Mod. Lang. Africa I. 98 Strictly speaking a Moor must be a native of Mauritania, and a Berber, and the term could not be applied with propriety to an Arab.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Berbers or their language; applied (often absol.) to one of the three great subdivisions of the Hamitic group, called also Lybian and Amazirg, containing, according to Cust, nine North African languages.
1854Latham in Orr's Circ. Sc. Org. Nat. I. 367 The Amazirg tongues are often called Berber. 1883Cust Mod. Lang. Africa I. 104 The Berber Family of Languages is one of striking unity. |