azeǧif

Tarifit

Alternative forms

• azellif — Eastern Tarifit

Etymology

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic زليف (zallīf, “roasted animal's head”), from Turkish zülüf.

Noun

azeǧif m (Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵣⴻⴵⵉⴼ, plural izeǧifen or izeǧaf, diminutive tazeǧift)

1. (anatomy) head

   Synonyms: aqiyyuɛ, ixf

Declension

Inflection of azeǧif

	singular	plural
free state	azeǧif	izeǧifen
construct state	uzeǧif	yizeǧifen

References

• Tarifit vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.