t-ǝ-mgad-an

Noun n.

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Français: Filles
English: girls
العربية: بنات (جمع)

Source : Christiansen-Bolli (2010), p. 118 — French and Arabic meanings translated from English, to be checked by the community

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). t-ǝ-mgad-an (girls). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1659-t-e-mgad-an (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctartmgadan,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{t-ǝ-mgad-an (girls)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1659-t-e-mgad-an},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… ender with the noun it modifies. This is shown by the last example, agar íi-m-an which contains the plural noun íi-m-an ‘life, soul’, and by forms such as agar t-ǝ-mgad-an ‘bad girls’ with the feminine plural noun t-ǝ-mgad-an ‘girls’. It should be noted that the regular expression for ‘bad’ is by means of the adjective yibrár+an ‘be bad+ADJZR’ and the place in the noun phrase is after the noun. (114) wá IMP (ǝ)n₌sǝ-d(a) aɣáy he yibráar-an 2s₌IMPERF.NEG-do 1s.IO thing be.bad-A …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 136
… on for an item in the distance has the following structure. (180) a) aɣa₌n 1s₌GEN húgu house nóo-(a-)se there-3S-there my house is (over) there. b) ni₌n 2s₌GEN t-ǝ-mgad-an F-PL-girl-PL íŋgi n(óo)-íi-se, 3p.EMP there-3P-there your girls, they are (over) there. A relationship to the KCH Songhay term /nono/ ‘it is’ (identificational copula) and KS /no/ ‘it is’ cannot entirely be excluded, even though they are syntactically different. no could then be read as a ‘be’-copula follow …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 237

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