s-ǝlhá

Verb v.

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Français: Faire pleurer (causatif de héw)
English: to make cry (causative of héw)
العربية: يجعله يبكي (صيغة السببية من héw)

Source : Christiansen-Bolli (2010), annexe II, p. 309 — French and Arabic meanings translated from English, to be checked by the community

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Hamadine AG MOCTAR (n.d.). s-ǝlhá (to make cry (causative of héw)). Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary. https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/717-s-elha (accessed 2026-10-18)

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@misc{moctarslha,
  author = {Hamadine AG MOCTAR},
  title = {{s-ǝlhá (to make cry (causative of héw))}},
  howpublished = {Tadaksahak–French–English–Arabic dictionary},
  url = {https://hamadine-services.net/en/dictionnaire/717-s-elha},
  urldate = {2026-10-18}
}

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8 arkílla moustiquaire arcíni hyène sǝkiyki essayer en force tǝgmací alphabet f/h fánfi pompe hánʃi chien alfáydat importance sǝlhá faire pleurer ífayan bordures (pl) íhayan descendants s/z sǝrgǝg joinder zǝrgǝz marcher vite aɣásar sauter sur aɣázar mare táslǝft hache (sp) tázlǝft aigle íblis diable ágliz reste de (n) s/ʃ sǝrɣǝd calmer ʃǝrɣǝʃ render facile ásɣal fonio áʃʃaɣal travail tǝskǝnt crottes tíʃkǝnt présent (cadau) afárɣas tortue ʃǝrɣǝʃ faciliter s/ṣ sǝdǝd support sur …

Ag Abdoussalam (s. d.), Structure grammaticale d’un parler berbéro-songhay du nord-est malien (tadaksahak) : éléments de linguistique, p. 8
… . rain to find leather / skin support to point jeejí jinán ijíiman ɣáafaf áaɣar aɣíri yírɣǝm yáhaɣ kós lǝkǝm yíkbǝl t(a)séelǝk caráy ceedí arcíni tǝgmací hánʃi sǝlhá íhayan to hang up luggage thousands (pl) striped polecat straw, sp. white spot (on dog) to warn to ransack to cut following (n) to support young woman friend spoon hyena alphabet dog make cry descendants to be bad to pull to pour canister star to borrow (s.th.) to decorate place part tobacco pouch neck pigeon par …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 28
57 Morphology b) c) qóq to be dry s-ǝɣǝr to dry kuŋgú to be full s-íywǝn to eat enough káŋ to fall ʃ-ǝḍḍǝr to make fall héw to cry s-ǝlhá to make cry gorá to sit ʃ-áɣam to make sit záw to take ʃ-úuwa to send s.th. to s.b. taŋgá to lead (animal) ʃ-ǝwǝt to make go (animal) ahead of s.b. dút to pound ʒ-íygiʒ to make s.b. pound There are over one hundred verbs in our corpus that have a suppletive root for the causative (as well as the other derivations treated below) (see Appendi …

Christiansen-Bolli (2010), A Grammar of Tadaksahak, a Northern Songhay Language of Mali, p. 75
… gné la grammaire. Lorsqu’un verbe d’origine songhay est rendu causatif ou passif, sa racine cède la place à une racine tamasheq ; ainsi héw, « pleurer », donne s-ǝlhá, « faire pleurer ». L’annexe II de la thèse de Christiansen-Bolli en recense quatre-vingt-quatre exemples. Shaykh Baye notait déjà, à sa manière, un parler mêlant « les mots des Sûdân et des Touaregs » ; Grémont et ses coauteurs le décrivent comme formé « de songhay de Tombouctou et de tamasheq ». La notice, dés …

MOCTAR (2026), Sur les pistes de ceux d’Ishaq, p. 11
… abulary: it reached the grammar. When a verb of Songhay origin is made causative or passive, its root gives way to a Tamasheq root; thus héw, “to weep”, yields s-ǝlhá, “to make weep”. Appendix II of Christiansen-Bolli’s thesis lists eighty-four examples. Shaykh Baye had already observed, in his own way, a speech mixing “the words of the Sûdân and of the Tuareg”; Grémont and his co-authors describe it as formed “from Timbuktu Songhay and Tamasheq”. The notice, now read in the …

MOCTAR (2026), On the Trails of Those of Ishaq, p. 11

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