ʒáwab

Verb v.

Translations

Français: Répondre (variante métathétique de wáʒab ‘répondre’)
English: to answer
العربية: يجيب

Source : Christiansen-Bolli (2010), p. 28 — French and Arabic meanings translated from English, to be checked by the community

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Reference

Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). ʒáwab (to answer). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1306-zhawab (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctarawab,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{ʒáwab (to answer)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1306-zhawab},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… l avorté' n'ont pas de variantes avec la métathèse. Un autre cas de métathèse optionnelle se trouve avec le verbe "répondre" wáʒab qui s'entend également comme ʒáwab. Consonnes longues aux frontières des morphèmes

Ag Abdoussalam (s. d.), Structure grammaticale d’un parler berbéro-songhay du nord-est malien (tadaksahak) : éléments de linguistique, p. 22
… ɣri ‘aborted animal’ do not have variants with metathesis. Another case of optional metathesis is found with the verb ‘to respond’ wáʒab which is also heard as ʒáwab. 2.4.1.7 Long consonants at morpheme boundaries In a number of contexts, morpho-phonological consonant lengthening takes place in intervocalic position at morpheme boundaries. It is not entirely clear what role is played by stress and both lexical stress and noun phrase intonation sometimes seem to have influence …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 46

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