a-ʃígnaw

Noun n.

Translations

Français: Fil à coudre
English: sewing thread
العربية: خيط خياطة

Source : Christiansen-Bolli (2010), p. 101 ; 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-ʃígnaw (sewing thread). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1545-a-shignaw (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctaraignaw,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{a-ʃígnaw (sewing thread)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1545-a-shignaw},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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101 Morphology (88) Stems dropping -w# a) b) singular plural i-máaṛ-an gloss relative (family) a-báktaw i-bákt-an old cushion a-ʃígnaw i-ʃígn-an thread (sew) ée-caw í-cc-an root áfraw áfr-an ~ í-fr-an feather; wing cíidaw cíid-an bird léelaw léel-an speech a-máaṛaw Monosyllabic Songhay cognates do not lose the final /w/, i.e. ‘insult’ wâw / wáaw-en ‘female camel’ yáw / yaaw-én. /y/ final nouns show more variety in behavior than the /w/ final nouns described above. For Songhay …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 119
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

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