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Tafraout
تافراوت ⵜⴰⴼⵔⴰⵡⵜ | |
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Town | |
  Tafraout Location in Morocco | |
| Coordinates: 29°43′N 8°58′W / 29.717°N 8.967°W | |
| Country |  Morocco |
| Region | Souss-Massa |
| Province | Tiznit Province |
| Population (2024) | |
• Total | 6,124 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (WEST) |
Tafraout, also Tafraoute[1] (Arabic: تافراوت, Tachelhit: 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 6,124 at the 2024 census.[2]
Name and etymology
[edit]The basic meaning of the Shilha feminine noun tafrawt is "basin or cistern in which water drawn from a well is poured", with a derived meaning "valley".[3] The centre of the town of Tafraout is actually situated in a small valley, at the foot of 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.
Notable people
[edit]- Aziz Akhannouch: Prime Minister of Morocco
- Mohamed Lahyani: Moroccan-Swedish Tennis umpire
- Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine: Moroccan-Amazigh poet and writer
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ↑ "Tafraoute travel". Lonely Planet. Retrieved 2022-10-25.
- ↑ "Population légale du Royaume du Maroc répartie par régions, provinces et préfectures et communes selon les résultats du Recensement général de la population et de l'habitat 2024". Haut-Commissariat au Plan (in French).
- ↑ See Laoust (1936:123) "bassin; citerne où s'accumule l'eau tirée d'un puits ou amenée d'une source"; Destaing (1938:288) "vallée".
- ↑ Scheffel, Richard L.; Wernet, Susan J., eds. (1980). Natural Wonders of the World. United States of America: Reader's Digest Association, Inc. p. 364. ISBN 0-89577-087-3.
- ↑ Tfrawt is the annexed state of the noun Tafrawt; see the article Shilha language, section Prefixed nouns.
References
[edit]- 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
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