Kabyle Definition

kə-bīl
kabyles
noun
A member of any of a group of Berber peoples in Algeria and Tunisia.
Webster's New World
The variety of Berber spoken by these peoples.
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pronoun

A Northern Berber language of the Berber branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, spoken by over 3,000,000 people in Algeria; native name Taqbaylit.

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adjective
Pertaining to these people or their language.
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Other Word Forms of Kabyle

Noun

Singular:
Kabyle
Plural:
kabyles

Origin of Kabyle

  • Arabic qabā’ilu pl. of qabīla tribe from qabila to receive qbl in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Algerian Arabic قبايل, plural of قبيلة (“tribe”).

    From Wiktionary

Kabyle Sentence Examples

  • On the mountains and the high plateaus the winter is often very severe; snow lies for six months on the higher peaks of the Kabyle mountains.

  • But in two months (May to June 1857) Marshal Randon made himself master of it, and built in the heart of this country Fort Napoleon (now Fort National), " the thorn in the side of Kabylia," whose batteries commanded all the Kabyle villages of the region.

  • This technique is in every way closely akin to that of the modern Kabyle.

  • This is exactly of the modern Kabyle style in Algeria, and entirely disappeared from Egypt very early in the prehistoric age.

  • The Kabyle women have stood side by side with their husbands in battle.

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Words Starting With

KKAKAB

Words Ending With

ELEYLE

Unscrambles

Kabyle

Words Starting With K and Ending With E

Starts With K & Ends With EStarts With KA & Ends With EStarts With K & Ends With LE

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With K6 Letter Words Ending With E