árat

Noun n.

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Français: Un peu (de) ; troupeau ; chose (?)
English: a little bit (of); herd; thing (?)
العربية: قليل (من)؛ قطيع؛ شيء (؟)

Source : Christiansen-Bolli (2010), p. 165 ; p. 277 ; p. 7, ex. 20 — French and Arabic meanings translated from English, to be checked by the community

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). árat (a little bit (of); herd; thing (?)). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1744-arat (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctararat,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{árat (a little bit (of); herd; thing (?))}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1744-arat},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… r moves inelegantly. ‘Few’ or ‘little (bit) of’ is expressed in a genitive construction. The reported way to say ‘a little bit of X’ is X n hé (X GEN thing) or árat ǝn X (thing GEN X). The latter is imported from Tamasheq together with the syntax with a reversal of head and dependant from the Tadaksahak point of view. In our texts a conglomerate of both is used in all but one case, e.g., árat ǝn yél ǝn hé (thing GEN green.grass GEN

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 183
… at you wash your hand (and) rinse your mouth before you begin to eat The apodosis of many conditional clauses is marked with FUT. (80) a) ǝs-kábahar maybe-when árat-an herd-PL i₌yyíli alfájir 3p₌leave morning a₌tǝ-t-ǝlǝm. 3s₌FUT-PASS-open when the herds left in the morning, it (gate) was opened. b) ǝs-káhar ni₌bb-ǝfṛǝd í-ʃʃib-an maybe-when 2s-IMPERF-broom PL-grain.kind-PL ka LOC t-á-blaq-q F-SG-dust-F.SG a₌tǝ-yírti-kat 3s-FUT-mix-VEN á-ɣaatir SG-riverbed ǝnd(a)₌í. with₌3p whe …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 194
… he sprinkle of rain’). Within the relative clause, ‘dry plains’ is fronted with a trace in the object position (it is not marked as a locative).6 (20) I-Ø-kuna arat n taẓara [# ka iɣarɣaran aryen i-Ø-huru i]. 3P-PERF-get thing GEN N:sprinkle LOC dry.plain.PL water 3S-PERF-enter 3S They got a sprinkle of rain from which the dry plains received water. In the following example, which contains two relative clauses, the postposition is enda ‘COM’. (21) Wa hinjin afereg [# enda taf …

Christiansen & Levinsohn (2003), Relative Clauses in Tadaksahak, p. 7

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