Jabal al-Lughat

While most Berber varieties use an Arabic loanword for "apple", several are reported to preserve a non-Arabic word: Jerbi a-ḏəffu...

Most Berber varieties have borrowed the word for "raisin" from Arabic, eg Kabyle azbib , or use a compound "dried grapes...

Lebanon's cities and villages, tragically now in the news , have some interesting etymologies. I always used to wonder about the dif...