amddnu

Tashelhit

Etymology

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Compare Awjila amə̀dən (“man”), Tuareg meddăn, meddǝn (“men”), Kabyle medden (“people”), Northern Saharan Berber middn (“people”), and Ghadames măddén (“people”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amdːnu/

Noun

amddnu m (plural middn or mddn, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵎⴷⴷⵏⵓ, Arabic spelling آمدّنو)

1. (Medieval Tashelhit) human being

   Synonym: afgan

Inflection

Inflection of amddnu

	singular	plural
free state	amddnu	middn, mddn
annexed state	—	—

See also

• argaz (“man”)
• tamɣart (“woman”)

References

• Ibn Tunart (a. 1172), Kamal Naït Zerad, Salim Lounissi, Salem Djemai, compilers, Numérisation du lexique arabo-berbère d'Ibn Tunart‎, published 2020