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- French · borrowed fromkabyle
- Arabic · borrowed fromقَبَائِل“tribes”
- English todayKabyle
From Arabic قَبَائِل (qabāʔil, “tribes”), plural of قَبِيلَة (qabīla, “tribe”), perhaps via French kabyle.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kabyle
Today it means: A member of a Berber ethnic group inhabiting Algeria, speaking the Kabyle language. Full definition →
Arabic قَبَائِل ← French kabyle