Berber vs. Moor — What's the Difference?

A member of a North African, primarily Muslim people living in settled or nomadic tribes from Morocco to Egypt.

To make fast (a vessel, for example) by means of cables, anchors, or lines

Any of the Afro-Asiatic languages of the Berbers.

To fix in place; secure

A member of a race somewhat resembling the Arabs, but often classed as Hamitic, who were formerly the inhabitants of the whole of North Africa from the Mediterranean southward into the Sahara, and who still occupy a large part of that region; - called also Kabyles. Also, the language spoken by this people.

To provide with an abiding emotional attachment

A member of a Caucasoid Muslim people of northern Africa

To secure a vessel or aircraft with lines or anchors.

An ethnic minority descended from Berbers and Arabs and living in northern Africa

To be secured with lines or anchors

A cluster of related dialects that were once the major language of northern Africa west of Egypt; now spoken mostly in Morocco

An uncultivated area covered with low-growing vegetation and often high but poorly drained.

A member of a traditionally Muslim people of mixed Berber and Arab ancestry, now living chiefly in northwest Africa.

One of the Muslims who invaded Spain in the 8th century and established a civilization in Andalusia that lasted until the late 15th century.

One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.

Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.

An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.

A game preserve consisting of moorland.

To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.

Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly.

To cast anchor; to become fast.

One of the Muslim people of north Africa; of mixed Arab and Berber descent; converted to Islam in the 8th century; conqueror of Spain in the 8th century

Open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss

Secure in or as if in a berth or dock;

Come into or dock at a wharf;

Secure with cables or ropes;