different between berber vs chleuh

Albanian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (berber) (Turkish berber), from Venetian barbièr (Italian barbiere).

Noun

berber m

1. barber (profession)

Catalan

Noun

berber m (plural berbers)

1. Berber

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Arabic ??????????? (barbariyy)

Noun

berber m (definite singular berberen, indefinite plural berbere, definite plural berberne)

1. a Berber (person)

Related terms

• berbisk

See also

• berbar (Nynorsk)

References

• “berber” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “berber” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

berber m (definite singular berberen, indefinite plural berberar, definite plural berberane)

1. form removed by a 1987 spelling decision; superseded by berbar

Romanian

Etymology

From French berbère

Adjective

berber m or n (feminine singular berber?, masculine plural berberi, feminine and neuter plural berbere)

1. Berber

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (berber), from Venetian barbièr (Italian barbiere).

Noun

berber (definite accusative berberi, plural berberler)

1. barber, hairdresser

   Synonym: (obsolete) perukâr

Declension

French

Alternative forms

• schleu, schleuh (Germanized variant forms, used when the word means "German")

Etymology

From Moroccan Arabic ????? (šl??). Among the French military in Africa it came to mean "one who couldn't speak French" and was then applied to the Germans during the Second World War.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lø/

Noun

chleuh m (plural chleuhs, feminine chleuhe)

1. (uncountable) Tashelhit; one of the Berber languages
2. (countable, derogatory, ethnic slur) a German; a kraut [1940s]

   Synonym: boche

Adjective

chleuh (feminine singular chleuhe, masculine plural chleuhs, feminine plural chleuhes)

1. Shilha, Tashelhit
2. (derogatory) German

Further reading

• “chleuh” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).