Tafraout
Tafraout
تافراوت ⵜⴰⴼⵔⴰⵡⵜ | |
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| Country | Error creating thumbnail: 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 | edit source]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 | edit source]- Aziz Akhannouch: Prime Minister of Morocco
- Mohamed Lahyani: Moroccan-Swedish Tennis umpire
See also
[edit | edit source]Notes
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- ^ See Laoust (1936:123) "bassin ; citerne où s'accumule l'eau tirée d'un puits ou amenée d'une source"; Destaing (1938:288) "vallée".
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- ^ Tfrawt is the annexed state of the noun Tafrawt; see the article Shilha language, section Prefixed nouns.
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
