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Sanhaja

Sanhaja noun: one of the largest Berber tribal confederations, along with the Zenata and Masmuda.

Noun

Sanhaja pl (plural only)

  1. (historical, plural, plural-only) One of the largest Berber tribal confederations, along with the Zenata and Masmuda.
  2. (plural, plural-only) A Berber ethnic group who inhabit the Rif in northern Morocco, speaking the Senhaja de Srair language.

Forms of Sanhaja

alternative formSanhadja
alternative formSenhadja
alternative formSenhaja
alternative formZenaga
alternative formZnaga

Origin of Sanhaja

From Arabic صنهاجة (ṣanhāja).

Words formed from Sanhaja

Phrases with Sanhaja

Questions about Sanhaja

What does Sanhaja mean?
Sanhaja means one of the largest Berber tribal confederations, along with the Zenata and Masmuda.
What part of speech is Sanhaja?
Sanhaja is a noun.

Words near Sanhaja in the dictionary

  1. sanguivory
  2. sangwich
  3. sangza
  4. Sangzhi
  5. Sanhadja
  6. Sanhaja
  7. Sanhaja de Srair
  8. Sanhe
  9. sanhedrim
  10. Sanhedrin
  11. Sanhedrins

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Sanhaja (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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