English
Kabyle
Kabyle comes from Arabic قَبَائِل ‘tribes’, and goes back to قَبِيلَة.
- Arabicc. 500–presentقَبِيلَةqabīla‘tribe’by way of French kabyle
- Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentقَبَائِلqabāʔil‘tribes’plural of قَبِيلَة
- Englishearliest quotation 1977Kabyle
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Arabicc. 500–presentقَبِيلَةqabīla‘tribe’by way of French kabyle
- Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentقَبَائِلqabāʔil‘tribes’plural of قَبِيلَة
- Englishearliest quotation 1977Kabyle
Earliest quotation: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace: “Revisiting his native land that year, Albert Camus was…”
Every English word from Arabic قَبِيلَة
Today it means
noun A member of a Berber ethnic group inhabiting Algeria, speaking the Kabyle language.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Arabic قَبِيلَة / Kabyle