Korrá

Verb vi.

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Français: Être chaud
English: Hot, to be
العربية: يكون ساخناً

Source : the site’s first dictionary (Swadesh list)

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). Korrá (Hot, to be). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/185-korra (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctarkorra,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{Korrá (Hot, to be)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/185-korra},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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15 Korrá chaleur Groupes de mots finaux Les seuls groupes autorisés en fin de mot contiennent la consonne /t/ comme dernier élément. Cette consonne est la deuxième partie du morphème discontinu t(a)-...-t ('féminin / diminutif / nominalisateur'). Groupes de consonnes finales de mots avec /-t/ Talánkawt queue Tadárɣalt aveugle Tabáɣort richesse Tabáremt roseau, sp. Tadábert Pigeon Voyelles Preuve des contrastes vocaliques Les contrastes vocaliques sont prouvés par les exemples …

Ag Abdoussalam (s. d.), Structure grammaticale d’un parler berbéro-songhay du nord-est malien (tadaksahak) : éléments de linguistique, p. 15
… lumn can also be used as nouns. (40) dida ‘to walk / the walking’ cena ‘to be small / smallness / younger sibling’ kos ‘to break / to be broken / the breaking’ korra ‘to heat / to be hot / the heat’ To summarize we can recall the facts: The causative morpheme used in Tadaksahak is of Berber origin and prefixed to the verb root as in Berber languages. The same is true for the morphemes of passive voice, reflexive, and reciprocal. Only verb roots that are also etymologically fr …

Christiansen & Christiansen (2002), Some verb morphology features of Tadaksahak, or: Berber or Songhay, this is the question, p. 10
… out lions children Consonantal length is independent of stress, as shown in the table below. (13) Long consonants and stress lexeme áɣalla mammaní hillí hurrú korrá gloss wall odor, perfume horn to look for heat CV pattern with stress V.CVC.C C.CV C.C CVC.C C.CV.CV C.C CVC.C C.CV C.C

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 35
… -bǝr-án qoq to be dry qooɣ-í qoq-án qoq-qoɣ-án ʒen to be old ʒeen-í ʒen-ʒen-án ṇas to be fat ṇaas-ú ṇas-ṇas-án b) mor to be distant mom-mor-í ~ (mom-mor-án) c) korrá to be hot kor-korr-í ~ (kor-korr-án) horrá to be bitter (hor-horr-í) ~ hor-horr-án d) kaŋ to fall e) gíman to be good a) káŋg-an giŋ-gimán It seems that the two very different strategies for adjective formation found in Tadaksahak are on the way to merging into one form that is used with all verbal roots. This me …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 156

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