Zumbú

Verb vi.

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Français: Descendre
English: To go down
العربية: ينزل

Source : the site’s first dictionary (One-argument verbs)

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). Zumbú (To go down). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/352-zumbu (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctarzumbu,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{Zumbú (To go down)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/352-zumbu},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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5 (4) Borey ma salangawey moor-andi person.PLDEF TAM toilet.PLDEF be.distant-CAUS ‘The people (should) distance toilets. (cause toilets to be distant)’ (5) Ay zumbu cijinoo ra. 1s go.down night.DEF LOC ‘I got out (of a canoe) during the night.’ (6) I na ay zumb-andi cijinoo ra. 3p TAM 1s go.down-CAUS night.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.PLDE …

Christiansen & Christiansen (2002), Some verb morphology features of Tadaksahak, or: Berber or Songhay, this is the question, p. 5
… yawan to eat enough ‘having well eaten (n)’ (6) fall kaŋ ʃeder odda he fell (7) fly ṣot seseged ǝgǝd to fly (8) get up tunu sunkur ǝnkǝr to get up (9) go down zumbu zezebet zăbbăt to go down (10) leave koy segla ăglu to leave (11) depart hunu sefel ǝfǝl to depart (12) be placed9 keni ʃinʃa ăṇsu to be placed (13) run zuru zezel azǝl to run (14) sit gora ʃaɣam neɣima ɣamu to sit ‘sit together’ (15) spend the day hoɣay sekla ăklu to spend the day (16) stop kay sebded ǝbdǝd to s …

Christiansen & Christiansen (2002), Some verb morphology features of Tadaksahak, or: Berber or Songhay, this is the question, p. 11
… d final V in brackets. Verbs that drop the last vowel all have a Songhay background. (42) Verbs dropping final /u/ Tadak dudú hunú tunú hurrú dumbú guŋgú húuru zumbú zurú gloss to pour to leave from to get up to look for to cut to guide (animal) to enter to get down to run Songhay (KCH) door hun tun wir dumbu gurje huru/a (KS) zumbu (KS) zuru (KS)

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 51
253 Syntax d) áŋga 3s.EMP be komín-tan LOC commune-PL i₌ddá 3p₌make because of that [focus] communes are made. f) ándi daw aɣ-tǝ-zumbú 2p LOC 1s-FUT-go.down it’s at your place [focus] that I will stay. Instrument focalization follows a different path. The expected fronting of a bare noun with preposition *ǝnda bundú ‘with a stick’ is ungrammatical. Instead, a strategy similar to relative clause formation is used: the focused element is followed by the DET marker aɣo and the p …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 271
… make silver LOC The blacksmith rubbed the bracelet that is made of silver. The plural form of the pronoun is aɣondo (or endaɣo).2 (5) Ci na imunaskon [aɣondo-Ø-zumbu ʁali daw]? who DET camel.riders REL.PL-PERF-go.down Rhali LOC Who are the camel riders who dismounted at Rhali’s (place)? Example (6) illustrates the gap strategy (# denotes the absence of a marker). (6) a-Ø-gar hamu [# f-keni aykaran daw]. 3S-PERF-find meat IMPF-lie puppies LOC …she (the lioness) found meat that …

Christiansen & Levinsohn (2003), Relative Clauses in Tadaksahak, p. 4

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