ma [m'] ~ (verb auxiliary) indicating
mood:
1. positive imperative mood singular; 11.D.2,
2. subjunctive mood; 10.D.1,
3. narrative mood; 22ma {maa, maayo} name,
designation; reputation, fame [low tone] (noun; 19p)
maa [#]{ma}[hangan] to hear; to understand
[high tone]
(verb; 3p); to feel (verb; 13); to listen, to obey
(verb)
ma daη: to name, to give a name (verb)
maa fufule: to feel the heat; to be enough
(verb; 13)
ma ga: in name of (postposition)
maan to approach, to come near (verb; 18p)
maanu near, nearly, about, almost (adverb;
18p)
Madala! Praise the lord!; That's wonderful
(interjection; 15)
madam [F]: Madame, lady (noun; 3, 6)
mafey meat and vegetable stew (noun; 16p)
malafa [malfa] gun (noun; 13p)
malam [alfa, alfaga] [H]: religious
teacher; by extension a priest [marabou] (noun; 3p)
malankasi [tay] pancreas (noun, 10)
malfa [malafa] gun (noun; 13p)
man where (adverb; 9p)
mana not in some constructions (adverb; 8)
mangu, mango mango (noun)
mannaŋ {mannan; manan} last year (adverb; 15p)
mansaŋ {mansan} now (adjective; 17)
mansaŋ cine {mansancine}: on the same time, at the
identical moment (adjective; 17)
manti not [in some constructions] (adverb;
8p)
manu (see maray)
maray {marey, mare} to injure, to be wounded, to be hurt,
to be injured [not to feel pain] (verb; 15p);
manu ka maray: to almost be hurt (verb; 18)
marga [margari, margamay, marganay; batu]
group meeting, gathering, assembly (noun);
marga [margu] see margan (verb)
margakoy, margakoyo persons who arranges
palaver
margan [margu] {marga, margandi} to unit, to join (together), to
group, to bring together; to mate (with), to sleep
with (sex) (verb; 13)
margan nd cere to mate with
margandi see margan (verb)
margananto, margananta united, assembled
(adjective)
marganyan, marganyaŋo action of uniting,
assembling (noun)
margaŋko, margaŋkwa person who units, who
assembles (noun)
marge how much, how many [always singular
noun]
(adverb; adjective; 8p, 9)
marge no how much is it [price] (adverb; 8p)
marksiney, marksina {margsiney}
whatever is common to several persons, communality,
similarity
(noun; 13)
margu [marga, margan, margandi] to gather together, to assemble; to
mix; to collect (verb; 19p)
mari cheeta [mammal] (noun; 5)
marsu (F) March [Zarma normally use
Muslim, lunar, calendar instead of Roman calendar]
(noun; grammar/time)
masa panecake [may be made of millet,
corn, flour, rice] (noun; 24p)
mate how [interrogative only; rarely
equivalent to what]
(adverb; 6p, 9)
mate kaη the way that [in indirect
question] (pronoun; 19)
may who; whose, which (pronoun; 9p)
mayu (F) May [Zarma normally use Muslim,
lunar, calendar instead of Roman calendar] (noun;
grammar/time)
me, meyo opening, mouth, doorway; end,
edge, limit
(noun; 6p, 10)
me [untranslatable, used to emphasize an
affirmative; example: "Kala me!"= Of course!, Only
just!] (interjection; 18)
me bene, me bena upper lip (noun; 10, 20p)
me feri tenth month of lunar year
[literally: untie the mouth], 1ste day end of fast
(noun; 25p)
me fo together, simultaneously, at the
same time, at first, first (adverb; 17p)
me ganda lower lip (noun; 10, 20p)
me hamni, me hamno moustache (noun; 10, 20p)
me kwaraï Roan antelope [mammal] (noun; 5)
meele, meela [hi; abaara]: (large) ship, boat;
steam ship
mehaw ninth month of lunar year, fast
month, 1st day is beginning of the fast (noun; 25p)
mekidimbo spur-winged goose [bird] (noun; 5)
me-mundi, me-mundo tear drop, tear (noun;
10, 20p)
meri, meri, mero [*]: ugly (adjective; 12p)
miila [haw, tamaha] {mila} to think, to
reflect (verb)
miile, miila {mile, /a} thought, idea;
concern (noun)
miilyan, miilyaŋo {miilyoŋ, /o}
action of thinking, of reflecting (noun)
miimandi {mimandi} to gossip, to chatter;
to give away, to squeal (verb; 24p)
miimandi, miimanda {mimandi} gossip,
chatter; giveaway, blabber (noun; 24p)
miimandiko, miimandikwa tattler, telltale,
snitcher, squealer (noun)
miimandyan, miimandyaŋo {miimandyoŋ, /o}
action of giving away; charge, complaint (noun)
mo too, also [see grammar] (conjunction; 5p)
mo, moyo / mwa [mowa] rice [tone from low to high];
[also: moyize, moyizo] eye [low
tone]
(noun; 8p, 16p)
mo duma {moyduma} face (noun, 10)
mo hamni {moyhamni} eye brow; eyelash (noun, 10)
mo hari {moyhari} tear, teardrop (noun)
moo boo, moo booyan {mo bo, mobo} dawn, earliest light, crack
of day (noun; 17p)
mo-fo-koy one-eyed person (noun; 16p)
mongu to be too hard, to be too difficult
(verb;
19p)
monsieur [F]: gentleman, lordship (noun; 3)
montr, montro (F): watch, clock (noun)
moru far (adverb; 20);
moru, moro [*]: sour (adjective; 13p)
moso slowly (adverb; 18p)
hala manti moso:
not a little, considerably, quite a lot (adverb;
16);
ma te moso take it easy (adverb; 18)
moso-moso very slowly (adverb; 18)
moto, mota car (noun; 5p)
motokoy, motokoyo driver; owner of a car (noun; 6)
Mouloud (F): 12th day, birth of Mohammed (noun; 25)
mudun, muduno trousers, pants (noun; 11p)
mun to pour out, to spill [also in the
sense of to drop unintentionally] (verb; 12p)
musu beri, musu bero lion [literally: big cat]
[mammal]
(noun; 3p)
musu, muso cat [usually domestic, but sometimes
lion]
(noun; 1p);
musu aru tomcat (noun; 5)
musu nya puss [has given birth] (noun; 5)
musu way puss [has not given birth] (noun; 5)
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