Ʒeemi

Noun n.

Translations

Français: Forgeron
English: Blacksmith
العربية: حداد

Source : the site’s first dictionary

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). Ʒeemi (Blacksmith). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/383-zheemi (accessed 2026-10-18)

BibTeX

@misc{moctareemi,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{Ʒeemi (Blacksmith)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/383-zheemi},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… in our corpus take the morpheme to mark the opposition male/female. They are shown below. (62) Songhay cognates with feminine gender morpheme male female gloss ʒeemí t-a-ʒéemi-t blacksmith bǝkáw t-a-bǝkaw-t jinn In contrast hánʃi ‘dog’, also a Songhay cognate, cannot be combined with the feminine morpheme. The term is suppleted by a Tamasheq

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 102
… (112) Genitive construction compounds hé ŋ kuná sickness thing GEN find.VN (Lit: finding of a thing) keení ŋ guná dream (Lit: sleep’s seeing) sleep GEN see.VN ʒéemi nn áwdǝʃ blacksmith GEN ox gánda ɲ caráy ground GEN friend gánda ŋ karfú ground GEN rope tárra nn ízzay bush GEN son praying mantis (Lit: ox of the blacksmith) snake, sp. (Lit: friend of the ground) grass snake (Lit: rope of the ground) lion (Lit: son of the bush) Some of these expressions are clearly euphemisms …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 135

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