kán

Verb vt.

Translations

Français: Sucrer
English: to sweeten
العربية: حلّى

Source : Christiansen-Bolli (2010), annexe IV — French and Arabic meanings translated from English, to be checked by the community

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). kán (to sweeten). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/629-kan (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctarsweeten,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{kán (to sweeten)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/629-kan},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… éeʃan dent m/w mǝnǝɣǝt dessécher wǝnǝnǝg se promener alámes poussin aláweg branche (sp) áɣrǝm ville áɣraw joug pour (loutre) n/ŋ na donner ŋa donner kaŋ tomber kan être délicieux N/ṇ ánna maman áaṇa arbuste (sp) Yaníd avoir de la fièvre yaṇǝṇ dresser (chameau) Restrictions de répartition Dans les sous-sections suivantes, nous examinons les restrictions de distribution des différentes consonnes. Un type de consonne trouvé "dans toutes les positions " signifie que les positions …

Ag Abdoussalam (s. d.), Structure grammaticale d’un parler berbéro-songhay du nord-est malien (tadaksahak) : éléments de linguistique, p. 10
… mdaɣ yéd yírmaɣ yíɣrǝf téefart áʒwar labás éelaw díidi tǝdícan áwwud báaɣa aɣǝɣi ámɣar yíkṛǝm éefaṛa fákaṛ náani takánnart adínit éeʃan wǝnǝnǝg aláweg áɣraw ŋa kan áaṇa yaṇǝṇ 13 freshness, pl men female camel to be able to giraffe to return to be afraid to span (drum) recompense jujube fruit to be dangerous elephant to trample tent posts boil (n) to want / to love crevice old person to rest (animals) wind from south to reveal here (it) is! forehead world tooth to walk about b …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 30
… e causative of intransitive verbs (and a few transitives), and the factitive of verbs of adjectival quality (Heath, 1999a:164ff): ŋaa eat ŋaa-ndi feed, let eat kan be sweet kan-andi sweeten In Tadaksahak, this suffix does not exist. Instead verb roots of Songhay origin are suppleted when they are causativized. The causative forms show very different roots, recognizable as Tamasheq cognates containing the causative sibilant prefix. (1) ŋa eat ʃ-íkʃa feed bíibi be black s-ǝkwǝl …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 67

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