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toll | noun | humushi (lit. one-fifth), cf. tax |
tomato | noun | gauta, pl. gautaye; plant with fruit like large t. yalo, pl. yaluna |
tomb | noun | kushewa or kusheya, pl. kusheyi, wurin kushewa, wurin bisne, kabari, barzahu f 70 |
tongs | noun | awortak(k)i or hawa̱r-tek(k)i, ansaki or hansaki |
tongue | noun | (the bodily member) halshi or harshì, pl. halshina |
tongue | noun | (= a particular language) see language 2 |
too | adverb | (= likewise) kua, kuma, ma |
too | adverb | (more than enough) express by the verbs faye and buaye |
tools | noun | pl. kaya or kaia or the pl. kayayeki |
tooth | noun | hani, haƙ(k)ori, pl. haƙ(k)ora; first t. of a child matamni, pl. matamna; back teeth gub(b)o; spec. t.-brush, made of bristles of a tree dashi; t.-gaping n. used of one who has lost two teeth gibi |
toothless | adjective | maidasashi; n. condition of being t. gigi |
top | noun | kai, pl. kawana, kawana and kawuna, bis(i)a or abis(i)a, kodi; on the t. of akan, bis(i)a or abis(i)a |
topple over, to | intransitive verb | yin kun-duma |
torch | noun | bakin wuta |
torment | noun | tsanani, gobara (orig. = the fire) b 12; spec. place of t. for unbelievers gumki or gamki, pl. gumaka; to suffer t. jin tsananta |
torment | transitive verb | tsananta, tsane, tsani, tsanache |
torn off, a half | noun | tsayi |
tornado | noun | haderi |
torrent | noun | koram(m)a |
tortoise | noun | kunkuru, kifta; a small t. kafarji |
toss | transitive verb | (of cattle, etc. when butting, goring) tunkuda, tun-guji or tunkui |
total | noun | (= sum or amount reached by reckoning) see calculation 2 |
tottering | adjective | agaga |
touch | transitive verb | tab(b)a |
towards | preposition | ga, before pronouns gare, also with dag(g)a |
towel | noun | bante, pl. bantuna, kalkaf(f)i |
town | noun | large, walled t. birni, pl. birane or birnua; small, unwalled t. gari, pl. garurua, and garigaru; quarter of a t. shiya or shia, pl. shiyoyi; cf. suburb |
toy | noun | (= plaything) abin worigi |
track | noun | (= beaten path) tafariki, tafarki, tafarke or tafraka |
trade | noun | fadake, chiniki |
trade | intransitive verb | yin fadake, yin chiniki; to t. successfully chin kasua |
trader | noun | fadake or maifadake, falke, pl. fadake, maifatauchi, maidilanchi, tajiri and attajiri, dan kasua |
trading | noun | fatauchi, dilanchi |
tradition | noun | (= doctrine orally handed down) sunna b 16, c 42 |
traduce | transitive verb | see calumniate |
trample | transitive verb | taka, intensive form tataka or tatake |
transform | transitive verb | sauya and sawaya |
transgress | intransitive verb | (= to do wrong) yin laifi, (= to commit sin) yin zunufi |
translate | verb | see interpret 1 |
transport | noun | animals used for t. alaro; oxen used for t. takarikari, pl. takarikarai |
trap | noun | hak(k)o, pl. hak(k)oki, fig. (= a thing leading into harm or error) id.; t. for rat burma or burma; t. for wild animals turko; to lay or set a t. hak(k)o with yi or the forms in na, fig. id |
travail | intransitive verb | see toil |
travail | noun | (= severe labour) see toil |
travail | noun | (= pains of childbirth) wohal(l)an hajfua; to be in t. nakuda |
travel | intransitive verb | taf(f)ia; also taf(f)ia with yi and the forms in na |
traveller, fellow | noun | abokin taf(f)ia, maraki |
travelling for trade | noun | fatauchi |
travelling-ant | noun | also coll. kwarikwas(s)a, kwalkwas(s)a or kwarukwas(s)a |
tread | verb | to t. down tataka or tatake; to t. down with the feet tak(k)e or taka; to t. on take, to t. upon (to crush) laze |
treasure | noun | wadi(a), taska; treasures ajiya, azaua f 94; royal t. stored up kambi |
treasury | noun | taska, pl. taskoki |
tree | noun | itache (sokoto itashe f 94) or iche, pl. itatua; in this sense the word is masc. (a stick cut from a t. i.e. itache is usually regarded as fem.), a dried-up, withered t. kobrin itache; also kwauri and kwabri, pl. kwaburuka; a t. when used to hang meat on jigo, pl. jiguna; a pair of trees so planted as to grow into one ... |
tremble | intransitive verb | (with terror, cold, etc.) firgita, raura, zazaga |
trembles, one who | noun | makartata d 43, maikartanta d 46 |
trespass | intransitive verb | see transgress |
trial | noun | (= putting to the proof, testing) jarabi, jaraba |
tribe | noun | iri, pl. irare, kawan |
tribunal | noun | wurin sheria |
tribute | noun | humushi, gandu or gundu, kurdin kas(a); t. money kurdin gandu; spec. t. paid by the heathen tara; cf. tax |
trick | noun | (= dexterous artifice) bamanki; wayo |
trickery | noun | (= fraudulent deception) birkonchi |
trim | transitive verb | (to put in order) gerta |
trip | intransitive verb | tunsure, yin tuntube, the last is used as a tr. and intr. v |
triumph | noun | see victory |
troop | noun | see company |
trot | intransitive verb | (of a horse) kil(l)isa |
trot | noun | jirigi or jirgi, pl. jirage |
trouble | noun | (= distress) woahal(l)a or wahal(l)a, ta'ba f 68, sa- |
trouble | noun | one who bears t. maiwohala(l)(a), one who causes t. mahas(s)adi |
trouble | verb | tr. wohalshe, ta'ba, sananche and tsananta, has(s)ada, alale, haiyet(i)a, refl. (= to trouble oneself) yin wohal(i)a, wohalda or wahalda; do not t. (= feel distressed) kadada ka wohalda kanka, (as a polite exp. = spare yourself the t.) keiyay kanka |
troublesome, what is | noun | kuma-nanchi; adj. da wuya |
trousers | noun | (i.e. the loose, baggy native t.) wando or wondo, pl. wanduna or wonduna a 11, f 202; spec. two pieces of cloth sewn on at bottom of native t. kamunkaf(f)a; trouser-string maazargi |
true | adjective | gen. da gaskia, da gaske, gaskia and gaske, (of persons = veracious, sound, honest) maigaskia, (= faithful) salihi, pl. salihai |
truly | adverb | da gaskia, da gaske, gaskia, gaske; 'aje, ashe, hakika, aiwa or ewa, ainin |
trumpet | noun | kafo or kafo, pl. kafoni and kafuna, kakaki |
trumpeter | noun | maikafo, maibusa (lit. blower) |
trunk | noun | (= small box, usually of leather) sanduki, pl. sandukai |
trunk | noun | (= proboscis of elephant) hanuṅ giwa |
trunk | noun | (t. of a tree) kwabri, kwauri, kobrin itache, kotutura |
trust | noun | (= confidence, certainty of safety) amāna, shaduda or saduda, (also = reliance on truth or right) gaskia b 19, (= the depositing of money etc. with anyone) sabtu, saptu or sotu |
trust | intransitive verb | or t. in (= rely on) dogare, dangana, shaduda or saduda, ingata, sakan kache |
trustee | noun | madaukan bashi |
trustworthy | adjective | (= to be relied on, depended on) yardāji or yı̄rdāji, ingatachi, tab(b)a-tache, fem. tab(b)atachia |
truth | noun | gaskia; phr. the t. of the matter konan magana; to speak the t. ba gaskia; to establish the t. gaskata or gaskanta |
try | transitive verb | (= make trial of) see trial; (= endeavour), kokari, yin kokari, tab(b)a (or bada) kokari |
tsokali or chokali تُوْكَلِ or چُوكَلِ | noun | wooden spoon |
tuarek | noun | gent. asben, pl. asbenawa |
tuesday | noun | rana talata |
tuft of hair | noun | on the head tuku or tikuwa; t. o. h. in the middle of the head zanko; cf. hair |
tug | transitive verb | (= to haul along) ja |
tumult | noun | (= noisy clamour of a multitude) hargowa; t. (e.g. of war) falmaki |
turban | noun | rawani, pl. rawuna; spec. small red, white-bordered t. zubuta; t. of white muslin harsa or hirsa; white muslin for making t. zabuta; white stuff for making t. mabur(r)us |
turkey | noun | talatalu, agagaya |
turn | transitive verb | (= to change or change into) tr. and intr. see change |
turn in, a., at the edge of a garment | noun | shafi |
turtle | noun | kunkuru |
turtle-dove | noun | kurichia, pl. kuri- |
tusk | noun | an elephant's t. haurin giwa, hauri; cf. ivory |
twig | noun | hamso; itache, q.v |
twilight | noun | (that before dawn) jijif also jijif b 56 |
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