murḍes

Tarifit

Etymology

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Verb

murḍes (Tifinagh spelling ⵎⵓⵔⴹⴻⵙ)

1. (intransitive) to be strangled
2. (intransitive) to be suffocated, to be asphyxiated
3. (intransitive, by extension) to die (without professing faith as a believer)
4. (intransitive, by extension) to die (without being slaughtered)

Conjugation

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Derived terms

• Verbal noun: amurḍes (“asphyxiation, suffocation”)
• Causative: smurḍes (“to strange, to suffocate”)
  • Verbal noun: asmurḍes
• amurḍus (“corpse; carrion”)