Berber

Meanings

Noun

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

Proper Noun

• A group of closely related Afroasiatic languages spoken in northern Africa, particularly Morocco and Algeria.

Adjective

• Of the Berber people, their culture, or their language.

Related

Similar words

• (singular: Amazigh)

Origin

• From Arabic بَرْبَرِيّ ("Berber"), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος ("non-Greek, foreign, barbarian"), apparently imitative of foreign speech.