axyam

Senhaja De Srair

Alternative forms

  • axam (Hmed)
  • axxam (Ketama)

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Arabic خيمة (ḵayma, “tent”). Semantically, the spread from ‘tent’ to ‘room, house’ is problematic. Alternatively from Proto-Berber *ɣ-m (“to sit, to stay”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aχjam/

Noun

axyam m (plural ixyamen, feminine equivalent taxyamt, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵅⵢⴰⵎ)

  1. house, home
    Synonym: ččar
    Axyam inneryeb. ― The house got destroyed.
  2. room, saloon
    Synonyms: lbit, ddamus, lmaḥal
  3. close family, household
    Synonym: ddexla

Declension

Inflection of axyam
singular plural
free state axyam ixyamen
construct state uxyam yexyamen

References

  • Gutova, Evgeniya; Byler, Jonathan (2025), “Senhaja de Srair - English Dictionary”, in Webonary‎[1], retrieved 2025
  • Gutova, Evgeniya (2021) Senhaja Berber Varieties : phonology, Morphology, and Morphosyntax (Thesis)‎[2], Paris, France: HAL
  • Maarten Kossmann (2013), The Arabic Influence on Northern Berber (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics; 67), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN
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