búkbuk

Verb v.

Translations

Français: Nettoyer en frappant
English: to clean by hitting
العربية: ينظف بالضرب

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

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Reference

Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). búkbuk (to clean by hitting). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1398-bukbuk (accessed 2026-10-18)

BibTeX

@misc{moctarbukbuk,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{búkbuk (to clean by hitting)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1398-bukbuk},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

This word in the works

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

… 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 Songhay background (e.g. cáycay ‘to weave’, cf. KCH key ‘to weave’) and forms with a Tamasheq background belong to thi …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 87
… with b- initial verbs 3p-IMPERF-verb a₌bǝ-bǝbbá gloss she is carrying (child) on the back a₌bǝ-bǝlǝglǝg it (fire) is crackling a₌bǝ-bǝllen he is wrestling a₌bǝ-búkbuk s/he is cleaning by hitting

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 95

búkbuk

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