ʒilá

Verb v.

Translations

Français: Nettoyer (un puits)
English: to clean (a well)
العربية: ينظف (بئرا)

Source : Ag Abdoussalam (s. d.), p. 27 — English and Arabic meanings translated from French, to be checked by the community

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). ʒilá (to clean (a well)). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1180-zhila (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctarclean,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{ʒilá (to clean (a well))}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1180-zhila},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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Pages of the library’s works where this word appears.

… (herbe sauvage) Baaaɣa vouloir Báaɣa vouloir Hiná cuisiner Kuná trouver Ŋá manger Yeezá dépecer (animal) Yismá nettoyer (les intestins) Zaaná baratter (beurre) Ʒilá nettoyer (puits) On note cependant une complication : lorsque le deuxième élément est l'enclitique ₌a 'il/elle', les formes avec et sans l'enclitique sont prononcées différemment. Les formes sans l'enclitique ont un arrêt glottal final non relâché, alors que celles avec l'enclitique n'en ont pas, cf. a₌ddá [adːǽʔ …

Ag Abdoussalam (s. d.), Structure grammaticale d’un parler berbéro-songhay du nord-est malien (tadaksahak) : éléments de linguistique, p. 27
… yeezá yismá gloss to see (s.b.) to harvest (wild grass) to want / to love to cook to find to eat to skin (animal) to clean (intestines) zaaná to churn (butter) ʒilá to clean out (well) etymology KCH: guna KCH: haabu ‘gather’ KCH: baa KCH: hina KCH: kumna ‘pick up’ KCH: ŋaa W: azu ‘to skin’ W: asǝṃ ‘clean by rubbing’ D: ǝss-unda ‘churn’ W: azǝnu ‘calabash to churn butter’ D: ǝšla ‘clean out (well)’ One notes, however, one complication, When the second element is the enclitic ₌ …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 53

ʒilá

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