rg

rg

Tashelhit

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Berber *ăβrəǵ
Zenaga *äwrəgbor.
Medieval Tashelhit *اَوْرَڭْ (ewreg)
Tashelhit rg

    From earlier Tashelhit *اَوْرَڭْ (ewreg), borrowed from a Zenaga-like Berber substratum form *äwrəg, ultimately from Proto-Berber *ăβrəǵ (“to grind, crush”).[1] Doublet of bri (“to grind, to crush”).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /rɡ/

    Verb

    rg (intensive aorist rrag, verbal noun awrag or arrag, Tifinagh spelling ⵔⴳ, Arabic spelling رڭ)

    1. to grind, to crush
      Synonym: bri
      رڭينت ڭيد الموس انّ، كّسنت ڭيس تيژنين
      rgint gid almus ann, kksnt gis tiẓnin
      They crush the Argan kernel and remove the white almonds.

    Derived terms

    • amrrag (“argan nut pestler”)
    • argan (“Argan”)
    • assargʷ (“stone anvil”)
    • azrg (“mill”)

    References

    1. ^ Lameen Souag (2023) Argan as a substratum word. Etudes et Documents Berbères 49-50, pp. 409-414
    • Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 3 m—š (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/3) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1882b
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