Ʒíibit

Verb vi.

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Français: Être sale
English: To be dirty
العربية: يكون قذراً

Source : the site’s first dictionary

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). Ʒíibit (To be dirty). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/386-zhiibit (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctariibit,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{Ʒíibit (To be dirty)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/386-zhiibit},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… phology (17) Songhay roots with causative prefix root yéd gloss to return caus. gloss KCH to make return yee yéeri to vomit s-éeri to cause to vomit yeeri (KS) ʒíibit to be dirty ʒí-ʒibit to make dirty jiibi s-eedí The case of s-eedí is remarkable, as there appears an additional /i/ at the end of the stem. Possibly, /yeeri/ ‘to restitute’ is related to /yed/ ‘return’. The causative may have been taken from an older disyllabic form. 3.1.3.2.3 Double causative A small number of …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 77
… ffix. (155) Disyllabic Songhay cognates with -an 3.2.8.3 verb kukú gloss to be long adjective ceená to be small/young/few ceen-án babó to be numerous babó-(a)n ʒíibit to be dirty ʒíibit-an kuk-án Reduplication + -an The great majority of monosyllabic verb roots of Songhay origin use a reduplication strategy. The verb root is duplicated and the morpheme -an is suffixed. The reduplication sometimes entails phonological changes, such as /n/-assimilation. A special instance is /r …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 154

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