addad

Tashelhit

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /adːad/

Etymology 1

Verbal noun of bdd (to stand).

Compare Tarifit addud (standing position), Kabyle addud (attitude), and also Latin status (state, position, place), and Arabic مَوْقِف (mawqif, position, situation).

Noun

addad m (construct state waddad, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴷⴷⴰⴷ, Arabic spelling آدّاد)

  1. place, position
    amẓ addad nnk.
    stay in your place.
  2. state, situation, condition
Inflection
Inflection of addad
singular plural
free state addad addadn
construct state waddad waddadn

Descendants

  • Kabyle: addad (state (grammar))
  • Moroccan Amazigh: ⴰⴷⴷⴰⴷ (addad, state)

Etymology 2

Verbal noun of add (to lower, to press)

Noun

addad m (construct state waddad, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴷⴷⴰⴷ, Arabic spelling آدّاد)

  1. lowering
    addad n usmaqql.lowering the gaze.
  2. press (action of pressing)
  3. a wad (used in firearms)
    g addadput a wad.

References

  • Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 1 a—e (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/1) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 65a