agar

Noun n.

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Français: Mauvais (dans composés)
English: Bad (in compounds)
العربية: سيء (في المركبات)

Source : the site’s first dictionary (Grammar)

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). agar (Bad (in compounds)). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/393-agar (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctaragar,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{agar (Bad (in compounds))}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/393-agar},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… d element precedes the noun it goes with. Its stress pattern depends on the stress of the following noun. When the noun has stress on the penultimate syllable, agar remains unstressed. When it has final stress, the element agar is stressed on its second syllable.

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 135
118 agar ‘bad’ doubtlessly has a Berber background, even though it does not seem to exist in Tuareg. The morphosyntactic behavior of Tadaksahak agar 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 sho …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 136
… ecteur du dictionnaire du site. Le nombre táaʃinda, « vingt », que Christiansen-Bolli rapproche du zénaga de Mauritanie (2010, p. 139-140) ; et le modificateur agar, « mauvais », qu’elle dit « sans aucun doute » d’origine berbère, bien qu’il ne semble pas exister en touareg (p. 118). Ce sont, selon Souag, les seules comparaisons avec un berbère non touareg que fait la grammaire ; il en ajoute d’autres. Le zénaga est la langue berbère encore parlée en Mauritanie méridionale ; …

MOCTAR (2026), Sur les pistes de ceux d’Ishaq, p. 13
… ngue, dont celle de l’Azawagh. Dresser la liste des mots et des morphèmes tadaksahak que ni le songhay ni le tamasheq n’expliquent, en partant de táaʃinda et d’agar, et les comparer au tetserret et au zénaga. Partir pour cela de la comparaison avec la tawillimidt établie par l’IPU (Ag Agouzoum, Hamadou et Ag Abdoussalam, s. d.), et ne pas confondre, dans les relevés, le tessawaq de Ménaka avec le tasawaq d’In Gall.

MOCTAR (2026), Sur les pistes de ceux d’Ishaq, p. 36
… of the site’s dictionary: the numeral táaʃinda, “twenty”, which Christiansen-Bolli compares with the Zenaga of Mauritania (2010, p. 139–140); and the modifier agar, “bad”, which she says “doubtlessly” has a Berber background, even though it does not seem to exist in Tuareg (p. 118). According to Souag, these are the only comparisons with a non- Tuareg Berber language that the grammar makes; he adds others. Zenaga is the Berber language still spoken in southern Mauritania; Te …

MOCTAR (2026), On the Trails of Those of Ishaq, p. 13

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