Definition of berber Berber
/bɚˈbɚ/ - [berber] - Ber•ber
We found 8 definitions of berber from 6 different sources.
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What does berber mean?
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| berber - a member of an indigenous people of northern Africa | ||
| african a native or inhabitant of Africa | ||
| almoravid a member of a Muslim dynasty of Berber warriors that flourished from 1049 to 1145 and that established political dominance over northwestern Africa and Spain | ||
| berber - a cluster of related dialects that were once the major language of northern Africa west of Egypt; now spoken mostly in Morocco | ||
| afrasian, afrasian language, afro-asiatic, afroasiatic, afroasiatic language, hamito-semitic a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa | ||
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Wiktionary 
- berber (Noun)
A member of a particular ethnic group indigenous to northwest Africa. - berber (Adjective)
Of the Berber people, their culture, or their language.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- berber (n.)
A member of a race somewhat resembling the Arabs, but often classed as Hamitic, who were formerly the inhabitants of the whole of North Africa from the Mediterranean southward into the Sahara, and who still occupy a large part of that region; -- called also Kabyles. Also, the language spoken by this people.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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berber
A group of closely related languages mainly spoken in Morocco and Algeria.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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berber
bėr′bėr, n. and adj. a member of one of the Hamitic tribes inhabiting the mountainous regions of Barbary and the northern portions of the Great Desert, originally occupying the whole southern coast of the Mediterranean: the language spoken by the Berbers. [Derived by Barth either from the name of their supposed ancestor, Ber, which we recognise in the L. A-fer, an African; or from the Gr. and L. term Barbari.]
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🔤- berber, noun, singular of berbers.
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