hándag

Noun n.

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Français: Endroit
English: place
العربية: مكان

Source : Christiansen-Bolli (2010), p. 246 — French and Arabic meanings translated from English, to be checked by the community

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). hándag (place). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1910-handag (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctarhandag,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{hándag (place)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/1910-handag},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… gar is remarkably similar to that of /erk/ ‘bad’ in Tamasheq. (113) Nouns found with agar agár borá bad person agár farká bad donkey agar léelaw slander agar a-hándag difficult/dangerous place agar káykay morally bad behavior agar íi-m-an dizzy spell agar ‘bad’ does not agree in number or gender 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 …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 136
… 3s₌LOC Lay(pl) on him, you all! [ándi 2p.EMP káamil] all In some instances with a singular noun it can be read as ‘every one of a given entity’ as in ǝnd(a) a-hándag káamil ‘towards every place’. In other instances a reading is also ‘entirely’ or paraphrased differently ‘all of X’ as in a₌ŋŋ(á)₌a, áŋga káamil ‘he ate him entirely’. kullú ‘each’ can be read as ‘each one of a given entity’ and so also indicates ‘all’ in some instances. Again, this modifier does not agree in nu …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 181

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