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Berber

noun

A member of an indigenous people of northern Africa.

A cluster of related dialects that were once the major language of northern Africa west of Egypt; now spoken mostly in Morocco.

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"Berber" Quotes from Famous Books

... At Ankheyre, or Wady-Berber, the caravan reached the Nile, after passing Shigre, one of the best mountain springs. One danger only is to be feared in crossing the desert; that of finding the wells at Nedjeym dry; and, unless the traveller ...

— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century • Jules Verne

... A Berber woman, cropping up from nowhere, came and sat beside us. She had the thin suntanned face of her kind, brilliant eyes touched with khol, high cheek-bones, and the exceedingly short upper lip which gives such charm to ...

— In Morocco • Edith Wharton

... takes into his confidence a caravan driver—perhaps an Arab, possibly a Berber, but quite as likely a slave. And the long experience has taught the caravan man where to find the precious water. The engineer then brings his science into play and drives an artesian well. The well thus driven may be a "gusher," but for most of them pumps are required ...

— Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania • Jewett Castello Gilson

Words linked to "Berber" : Hamito-Semitic, Afrasian language, Tuareg, Afroasiatic, Almoravid, Riffian, African, riff, Afro-Asiatic, Afroasiatic language, Afrasian