Tafraout
Tafraout
تافراوت ⵜⴰⴼⵔⴰⵡⵜ | |
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Tafraout, also TafraouteTachelhit: ⵜⴰⴼⵔⴰⵡⵜ) is a town in Tiznit Province, Souss-Massa region, Morocco. Situated in the central part of the Anti-Atlas mountains, a mountain range in Morocco which is part of the Atlas Mountains in the northwest of Africa, the town has a population of 4,931 at the 2004 census.[2]
Name and etymology
The basic meaning of the
Djebel Lekest, a pink granite mountain formed by erosion.[4] A male inhabitant is called in Shilha "u Tfrawt", (plural "ayt Tfrawt"); a female inhabitant is "ult Tfrawt", (plural "ist Tfrawt").[5]
The area is surrounded by mountains and olive and almond groves, as well as
argan
and fig trees.
See also
Notes
- ^ "Tafraoute travel". Lonely Planet. Retrieved 2022-10-25.
- ^ "World Gazetteer". Archived from the original on 2013-01-05.
- ^ See Laoust (1936:123) "bassin ; citerne où s'accumule l'eau tirée d'un puits ou amenée d'une source"; Destaing (1938:288) "vallée".
- ISBN 0-89577-087-3.
- ^ Tfrawt is the annexed state of the noun Tafrawt; see the article Shilha language, section Prefixed nouns.
References
- Destaing, E. (1938). Etude sur la tachelḥît du Soûs. Vocabulaire français-berbère. Paris: Leroux.
- Laoust, E. (1936). Cours de berbère marocain. Dialectes du Sous du Haut et de l'Anti-Atlas. Deuxième édition revue et corrigée. Paris: Société d'éditions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales (first ed. Paris: Challamel, 1921).
External links
Media related to Tafraout (Morocco) at Wikimedia Commons
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29°43′N 8°58′W / 29.717°N 8.967°W
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