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Kabyles

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Ka⋅byle

  [kuh-bahyl]
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–noun
1. a member of a branch of the Berber people dwelling in NE Algeria.
2. the Berber language spoken by the Kabyles.
Origin:
1730–40; < Ar qabā'il, pl. of qabīlah tribe
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Ka·byle   (kə-bīl')   
n.   pl. Kabyle or Ka·byles

  1. A member of a Berber people of northeast Algeria.

  2. The Berber language of this people.


[Arabic qabā'ilu, pl. of qabīla, tribe, from qabila, to receive; see qbl in Semitic roots.]
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