Tibesti Mountains
The Tibesti Mountains are named for the Toubou people, also written "Tibu" or "Tubu", that inhabit the area. In the Kanuri language, "tu" means "rocks" or "mountain" and "bu" means "a person" or "dweller," and thus "Toubou" roughly translates to "people of the mountains" and "Tibesti" to the "place where the mountain people live".