The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kabyle \Ka*byle"\, n. [Ar. qab[=i]la.] (Ethnol.) A Berber, as in Algiers or Tunis. See Berber.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Berber of Algeria and Tunisia, 1738, also of their language, from French, from Arabic qaba'il, plural of qabilah "tribe."
Wiktionary
a. Pertaining to these people or their language. n. A member of a Berber ethnic group inhabiting Algeria and Tunisia, speaking the Kabyle language. n. A http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20Berber%20languages of the Berber branch of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Asiatic%20languages family, spoken by over 3,000,000 people in Algeria; native name ''Taqbaylit''.
Wikipedia
Kabyle may refer to:
- Kabyle people, an ethnic group in Algeria
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Kabyle language
- Kabyle alphabet, also known as Berber Latin alphabet
- Kabyle grammar
- Kabylie, the Kabyle ethnic homeland
- Kabyles du Pacifique, a group of Algerians deported to New Caledonia after an uprising in 1871
- Kabyle (ancient city), an ancient Thracian city in southeastern Bulgaria
- Kabile, Bulgaria, a modern village near the Thracian city
- Kabyle musket
Kabyle is an ancient Thracian city near the modern city of Kabile. It is situated less than 10 km away from Yambol, south-eastern Bulgaria. Kabyle used to be one of the most important centers of south-eastern Thrace. It was established around 2000 BC on the Zaychi Vrah Heights. It was proclaimed part of the 100 Tourist Sites of Bulgaria. The territory of the city and the surrounding area was proclaimed a territory of national importance in 1965 and converted to an archaeological reserve. The area of the reserve is around 65 km.
Many of the findings are housed in the onsite museum which also includes an exhibition tracking the excavation history of the site.
Usage examples of "kabyle".
Before that, I ran barefoot through the hills of the Kabyle like a wild goat.
The red-haired child, now nearly six, could speak fluent Kabyle and Arabic as well as his native French, so Shahin could converse freely with him.
The Kabyle saw these glances, but, completely satisfied with himself, evidently attributed them to envy.
Beside him sat the Kabyle servant, who, in his picturesque embroidered clothes, with his jaunty fez, appeared amusingly out of place in the smart automobile, which struck the last note of modernity.
Lady MacGregor took nothing from Mohammed and the other Kabyle servant who waited on Nevill and Stephen.
Dandy Dinmont, and a mother and child of unknown race, which he afterwards learned was Kabyle, a breed beloved of mountain men and desert tent-dwellers.
I remember my sister telling me, when she was at home last year for a holiday, about a Kabyle servant girl who waits on her in Tlemcen.
Now, too, he could tell her what Mademoiselle Soubise had said about the Kabyle girl, Mouni.
She may have gone to Tlemcen to see that Kabyle maid of Mademoiselle Soubise, for herself.
And even if not, they might find out how to reach Saidee, by catechizing the Kabyle girl.
Nevill bought a good deal of Kabyle jewellery, necklaces and long earrings, or boxes enamelled in crude greens and reds, blues and yellows.
The Kabyle place of worship had a roof of little more height or importance than those that clustered round it.
Nevill could catch no word, for they were talking their own Kabyle tongue which had come down from their forefathers the Berbers, lords of the land long years before the Arabs drove them into the high mountains.
Water overflowed from a small well, making a pool in the courtyard, in which ducks and geese waddled, quacking, turkey-cocks fought in quiet corners, barked at impotently by Kabyle puppies.
The Arabs declare that on moonlight nights they have heard him joining in the chorus of the Kabyle dogs.