a-ná-ẓmay

Other spellings : anazmay

Noun n.

Translations

Français: Aiguille
English: needle
العربية: إبرة

Source : Christiansen-Bolli (2010), p. 86 ; p. 199 — French and Arabic meanings translated from English, to be checked by the community

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). a-ná-ẓmay (needle). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1460-a-na-zmay (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctaranazmay,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{a-ná-ẓmay (needle)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1460-a-na-zmay},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… our dudu sesenɣel dudu ǝnɣǝl to pour (57) reach ṭaw suwud ṭaw awǝḍ to reach tuwud ‘catch up with’ (58) sew ṭatab zezmi ṭatab nezmi ǝẓmǝy to sew ‘sewn together’ anazmay ‘needle’ (59) throw out mun sesenɣel mun ǝnɣǝl to pour tuwanɣel17 (60) tie up haw suwaqan haw ǝqqǝn to tie up tuwaqan References Aḷi, Alalou, and Patrick Farrell. 1993. “Argument structure and causativization in Tamazight Berber.” Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 14:155–186. Heath, Jeffrey. 1999. A …

Christiansen & Christiansen (2002), Some verb morphology features of Tadaksahak, or: Berber or Songhay, this is the question, p. 13
… fact, in a number of lexicalized items, the feminine refers to something bigger than the masculine. (65) Irregular pairs á-lkas t-á-lkas-t tea glass; calabash a-ná-ẓmay t-a-ná-ẓmay-t needle; sewing machine a-máaṣur t-a-máaṣur-t forearm; force á-mrar t-á-mrar-t neck rope (baby camel); halter (adult camel)

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 104
199 Syntax (134) aɣa₌zz-úguz a-ʃígnaw 1s₌CAUS-enter.BND SG-thread a-ná-ẓmay ǝn SG-ACT-sew GEN I threaded the thread in the hole of the needle. fún ka. hole LOC The verb ‘to prefer’ yasáf has no causative marker but behaves like the verbs described above when it occurs with nominal complements. Two nouns follow the verb to express preference of the one item over the other. The item immediately following the verb is the preferred one while the second unmarked noun encodes the l …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 217
… ing example, for instance, ‘a horse of good quality’ is an indefinite but established entity. (34) Dini bari [aɣo yifren-an] ni-m-tebbet aɣay ayn tekermuʃit ka anazmay. take horse REL be.chosen.ADJZ 2S-SUBJ-hit 1S 3S.GEN hoof LOC needle Take a horse of good quality and hammer a needle in its hoof for me. Similarly, ‘big game’ (lit., ‘game that is big’) is an indefinite but established entity. (35) datawa anga enda boren i-b-wi iharran enda imudaran old.times 3S.T COM people 3 …

Christiansen & Levinsohn (2003), Relative Clauses in Tadaksahak, p. 10

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