adrim

Tashelhit

Etymology

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ)bor.

Middle Persian 𐭦𐭥𐭦𐭭 (drahm)bor.

Arabic دِرْهَم (dirham)der.?

Tashelhit adrim

Possibly an early borrowing of Arabic دِرْهَم (dirham, “dirham”), which would make it a doublet of ddrhm. Compare Kabyle adrim (“money”) and Ghadames édrəm (“coins”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /adrim/

Noun

adrim m (annexed state udrim, plural idrimn, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴷⵔⵉⵎ, Arabic spelling آدريم)

1. (obsolete) copper coin

   Synonym: aqariḍ

2. (obsolete) centime
3. (obsolete) small amount of money
4. (in the plural) money

   Synonyms: lfls, aqariḍ

See also

• anas (“copper”)
• aẓrf (“silver”)
• tamuzunt (“a coin worth six fels”)

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 74a