askrz

Tashelhit

آسكرز (sense 1)

Alternative forms

• asskrz, azkrz

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Berber *a-s-

Medieval Tashelhit اَسـْ (as-)

Tashelhit as-

Proto-Berber *ăḱrəz

Tashelhit krz

Tashelhit askrz

From as- (nomen instrumenti prefix) + krz (“to plough”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /askrz/

Noun

askrz m (plural iskraz, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵙⴽⵔⵣ, Arabic spelling آسكرز)

2. plough
4. ploughshare

Inflection

Inflection of askrz

	singular	plural
free state	askrz	iskraz
annexed state	uskrz	iskraz

Derived terms

• uzzal n uskrz (“ploughshare”)

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 426b