yíslǝf

Verb v.

Translations

Français: Sculpter ; sculpter, tailler
English: to carve; to carve, to cut
العربية: ينحت؛ ينحت، يقطع

Source : Christiansen-Bolli (2010), p. 69 ; p. 115 — French and Arabic meanings translated from English, to be checked by the community

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). yíslǝf (to carve; to carve, to cut). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1395-yislef (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctaryislf,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{yíslǝf (to carve; to carve, to cut)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1395-yislef},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… tion of Tamasheq cognates root a) yíttǝl gloss duplicated to roll around tǝltǝl gloss to roll up yífṛǝṣ to cut (kind of) fǝṛǝṣfǝṛǝṣ to cut in many small pieces yíslǝf to carve sǝlǝfsǝlǝf to carve many yíɣli(y) to go around ɣǝlíyɣǝli to go around repeatedly to thresh (millet) búkbuk to clean by hitting to hammer tǝbtǝb to castrate (kind of) b) búk-ut tǝbb-ǝt kǝrǝmm-ǝt to cut s.th. dry kǝrǝmkǝrǝm to crumble A number of verb stems only occur as duplications. Both forms with a So …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 87
… efix shows the same behavior s-ǝksǝl. One stem was found that does not take the instrument morpheme but the feminine marker only and results in the instrument: yíslǝf > t-á-slǝf-t ‘to carve > carving ax’. The /s/ in the root is possibly interpreted as the instrument marker. 3.2.5 Compounding Tadaksahak almost entirely lacks the possibility of noun-noun compounding. This is very different from the situation in Mainstream Songhay, such as Gao Songhay, and resembles the situatio …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 133

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