Kár

Verb vt.

Translations

Français: Sculpter (cuillère), frapper, jouer (instrument/foot), twiner, avertir
English: Carve (wooden spoon); hit; play (instrument/football); twine (rope); warn, to
العربية: ينحت (ملعقة)، يضرب، يعزف (آلة/كرة)، يفتل، يحذر

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

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). Kár (Carve (wooden spoon); hit; play (instrument/football); twine (rope); warn, to). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/200-kar (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctarcarve,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{Kár (Carve (wooden spoon); hit; play (instrument/football); twine (rope); warn, to)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/200-kar},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… ght.DEF LOC ‘They made me get out during the night.’ The indefinite singular noun “friend, mate” is the basis for a reciprocal construction.3 (7) Borey ga cere kar. Person.PLDEF TAM friend hit ‘The people hit each other.’ Compound reflexives are formed with the word “head” without definite and plural suffixes.4 (8) Faatuma nda Aysa ga (ngi boŋ) ©umay name and name TAM (3p.GEN head) wash ‘Faatuma and Aysa wash themselves.’ 2.2. Tamasheq 2.2.1. Conjugation Conjugation in Tamash …

Christiansen & Christiansen (2002), Some verb morphology features of Tadaksahak, or: Berber or Songhay, this is the question, p. 5
… a *sekfa12 tekfa nekfa ăkfu to give ‘give each other’ (30) enter in huru zuguz ǝggǝz to enter in (31) hear mo sesla tuwesla isalan ăslu to hear ‘news’ (32) hit kar ʃuwut tewet nemewut ǝwǝt to hit ‘lead (animals)’ ‘hit each other’ (33) jump over ṣot seseged tuwuged ǝggǝd to jump (34) kill wi sasuwanɣa tuwanɣa nemanɣa anɣu to kill/hit ‘hit each other’ asamanɣo ‘mortality’ (35) know bay ʃiʃin tuwusan tusunt ǝssǝn to know (how to do) ‘knowledge’ (36) lead pulling gungu sisilwi al …

Christiansen & Christiansen (2002), Some verb morphology features of Tadaksahak, or: Berber or Songhay, this is the question, p. 12
50 borey ga cere kar. person.PLDEF MAN friend hit the people hit each other. In Tadaksahak, however, the reciprocal is expressed with a nasal prefix as in Tamasheq. (2) yídɣǝr to be glued m-ǝdɣǝr to adhere to As with causatives, Songhay underived verbs may be paralleled by Tamasheq-based derived forms (sometimes a double middle prefix), e.g. (3) kár to hit nǝ-mm-aŋɣa to hit/kill each other For passive forms, Mainstream Songhay verbs take the same morpheme as for causative for …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 68
… mór nǝ-mm-ǝgǝg to be distant to be distant from each other mán nǝ-mm-ǝhǝz to be close to be close to each other háaṣi nǝ-mm-ǝswud to look to look at each other kár nǝ-mm-ǝwut to hit to hit each other záw nǝ-mm-ǝwi to take to be infectious (lit: to be taken to each other) There are a number of underived Tamasheq cognates that also take a derived form with the double prefix. In many cases a meaning of ‘doing together/with each other’ is conveyed.

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 81

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