a-ma-záyzay

Noun n.

Translations

Français: Voleur (nom d'agent dérivé de záy « voler » (redoublement))
English: thief
العربية: لص

Source : Christiansen-Bolli (2010), p. 111 — French and Arabic meanings translated from English, to be checked by the community

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Reference

Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). a-ma-záyzay (thief). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1625-a-ma-zayzay (accessed 2026-10-18)

BibTeX

@misc{moctaramazayzay,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{a-ma-záyzay (thief)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1625-a-ma-zayzay},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… m one finds actor nominalization with a verb root of Songhay origin. The CVC root is reduplicated and then prefixes the regular actor morpheme: záy ‘to steal’, a-ma-záyzay ‘thief’. Another possible cognate of Songhay uses the ‘long vowel strategy’ for actor building: ḍaṛ ‘to hurt’ (cf. KCH /door/ ‘hurt’) may be the stem from which a-méeḍaṛ is derived ‘a hurting particle (in the eye)’. The /e/ directly after the /m/ is irregular, though, and not found elsewhere in our corpus. …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 129

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