aknari

Tashelhit

آكناري

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish Canarias

Proto-Afroasiatic

Proto-Semitic

Arabic ـِيّ (-iyy)

Moroccan Arabic ـي (-i)bor.

Tashelhit -i

Tashelhit aknari

From Spanish Canarias (“Canary islands”) + Tashelhit -i (“relational suffix”). Literally, “the Canarian”.

The species was introduced to Morocco from the Americas via the Spanish in the 16th century.

Noun

aknari m (Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴽⵏⴰⵔⵉ, Arabic spelling آكناري)

1. (chiefly collective) prickly pear (Opuntia ficus-indica)

Inflection

Inflection of aknari

	singular	plural
free state	aknari	iknariyn
annexed state	uknari	iknariyn

Derived terms

• aknari aclḥiy, aknari abldi (“fig with thorns”)
• aknari arumi (“cactus, fig without thorns”)
• angul n uknari (“Opuntia pad”)
• taknarit (“Barbary fig fruit”)

References

• Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 1 A–E (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/1) (in French), Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 216b