t-a-bóoraq-q

Noun n.

Translations

Français: Dattier du désert
English: wild date tree (Balanites aegyptiaca)
العربية: هجليج (نخيل الصحراء)

Source : Christiansen-Bolli (2010), p. 87 — French and Arabic meanings translated from English, to be checked by the community

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). t-a-bóoraq-q (wild date tree (Balanites aegyptiaca)). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1467-t-a-booraq-q (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctartabooraqq,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{t-a-bóoraq-q (wild date tree (Balanites aegyptiaca))}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1467-t-a-booraq-q},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… t-ǝggar-t acacia (Acacia nilotica) t-á-ẓay-t acacia (Acacia senegal) t-á-dɣǝm-t baobab tree (Adansonia digitata) t-a-ʒáyin-t jujube tree (Ziziphus mauritiana) t-a-bóoraq-q wild date tree (Balanites aegyptiaca) t-áa-dan-t shrub (Boscia senegalensis) óoruf acacia (Acacia seyal) á-ffagag acacia (Acacia raddiana) a-ɣarzǝbbi acacia (Acacia pennata)

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 105
… ic name a-dáras tree (Commiphora africana) In one case, the fruit of the tree is referred to by means of the masculine form: a-bóoraɣ ‘fruit of wild date tree’ t-a-bóoraq-q ‘wild date tree’. In most cases the fruits of these trees have names with no relation to the name of the tree. An exception is t-a-ráka-t ‘shrub (Grewia tenax or Grewia mollis)’, a term which also refers to the fruit. The use of the feminine morpheme in nominalization will be treated below (3.2.4.3). 3.2.3 …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 106

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