Berber

Meanings

1. A member of a particular ethnic group indigenous to Western North Africa.
2. A kind of traditional rug manufactured by the Berber people.

1. A group of closely related Afroasiatic languages spoken in northern Africa, particularly Morocco and Algeria.

1. Of the Berber people, their culture, or their language.

Etymology

From Arabic بَرْبَرِيّ (barbariyy, “Berber”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “non-Greek, foreign, barbarian”), apparently imitative of foreign speech. Cognate of English barbarian.