suubú

Noun n.

Translations

Français: Foin ; herbe sèche sur pied
English: hay; grass dried on the root
العربية: تبن؛ عشب يابس

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.). suubú (hay; grass dried on the root). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/651-suubu (accessed 2026-10-18)

BibTeX

@misc{moctarsuubu,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{suubú (hay; grass dried on the root)}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/651-suubu},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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… M.NEAR like fó. thing IND she was absolutely beautiful. (Lit: she was (put) in that beauty like something.) c) ée-dag SG-place aɣo sénda DET DEM.FAR ni₌dd(á)₌a suubú 2s₌put₌3s hay ka. inʒín ni₌yyíkkǝl₌a like 2s₌lift.up₌3s LOC this matter is like (as if) you take it (fire) up and put it to the hay. Example (b) shows an idiomatic use for an absolute superlative. It has the same construction as the first example with ‘something’. (c) also illustrates that clauses can follow inʒí …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 286
… ssa ‘soro’ pl. sóoro surgó--(e)n surgóy n. woman ◀ soog-a ‘young adult’ KS:281 pl. surgó zaw surgóy idiom to get married surgóy may aníyat idiom pregnant woman suubú n. hay; grass dried on the root ◀ subu ‘grass, straw, herb’ suub--én KCH:226 pl. suub Ṣ ṣót vi. to fly (bird) — vt. to jump over ◀ sar ‘jump, hop, dance’ KCH:214 — n. jump ʃ ʃaakú n. bag (for cereal) ◀ caaku ‘large sack (for grain)’ KCH:55 perhaps ʃaakúu--tan < French ‘sac’ pl. ʃaakúu

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 354

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