taabandi to make suffer, to treat badly, to torment (verb; music sheets)

taatagay ostrich [bird] (noun; 5 list)

taba tobacco (noun; 24p)

taba haŋ to smoke tobacco, to dip snuff (verb; 24p)

taba kusu pipe [literally: tobacco cooking pot] (noun; 24p)

tabal, tablo [F] table (noun; 4p)

tabante folded (adjective; 21)

tabbat sure, certain (adjective; 9)

tabi to suffer, to struggle, to have a hard time of it, to travail, to labor [tone from high to low] (verb; 19p, 24p);
tabi, tabo struggle, difficult, travail, trouble [tone from high to low] (noun; 19p, 24p)

tabu to fold, to fold up (verb; 21)

taci [= itaci]: four [4] [in combination with noun]
(cardinal number; 3)

tafarnuwa [H]: garlic (noun; 16p)

tafe, tafa cloth (about two meters of fabric, usually very colourful, French: "pagne"), blanket (noun; 11p)

tafey, tafey, tafo [*]: broad, wide (adjective; 5p)

tafeyan breadth, broadness (noun; 25)

taka to create (verb; 22)

tako, takwa (taako, taakow} tailor; someone who accepts (noun; 11p)

takuba sabre, sword (noun; 23p)

talfon (F) [konkayzemiimandakomo; guuru sisiri] telephone (noun)

tali, talo wrong, error, mistake, fault [blameworthy]
(noun; 10p)

talibize, talibizo (A): pupil of Koran school (noun)

talifi to entrust [high tone] (verb; 23p)
ay g'a talifi ni ga: I will entrust you;
talifi, talifo object or objects entrusted to one [tone from high to low] (noun; 23p)

tam to fish [generally with net] (verb; 23p)
tam, tamo slave; prisoner; servant; [also tami, /o] catch, draught of fishes (noun)

tamaha to suppose, to think (verb; 15p)

tamko, tamka {tamkow, tamkowa} fisherman (noun)

taamu, taamo {tamu} shoe, sandal (noun; 11p);
trample down, walk over (verb; 15)

taamu teka, taamu takwa shoemaker (noun; 11p)

tamyan, tamyaηo {tamyoη, /o} fishing, catching of fish (noun)

tangara grassmat, grass rug made of kongo leaves
(noun; 19p)

tangari, tangaro [tari]: lie, falsehood (noun; 21)

tantabal [kolnay]: pigeon [bird] (noun; 5 list)

taanto, taanta someone accepted (noun)

tar to do quickly, to do soon [see tara] (verb; 15)

tara soon, quickly, early (adverb; 18p)
tara ga ban: to be finished soon (verb; 18)

tarey outside, openly (adverb; 13p, 19p, 20)

tari to lie [high tone] (verb; 21)
tari, taro [tangari]: lie, falsehood [high tone] (noun; 21)

taaru, taaro {taru, taro} fishnet [usually the large square gill net]
(noun; 23p)

tasa [F]: dish, usually of enamelled tin (noun; 4p)

tasi, taso sand (noun; 22)

tata sweet pepper (noun)

tawa [katawa]: native ball made of stripes of cloth or of string (noun; 22)

tay [malankasi] pancreas (noun, 10)

taayan, taayaŋo {tayan, taayoη} sewing; acceptation
(noun; 13)

tayla (E): sewing machine [from English "tailor"] (noun; 11p)

tchimbiti helmeted tortoise [reptile] (noun; 5 list)

te to make, to do, to happen; to become; to have (verb; 3p);
te adduwa (H): to pray [in general] (verb; 9p);
te bine: to become angry (verb; 23p);
te boŋfutey: to be unlucky (verb; 16);
te boŋkaney: to be lucky  (verb; 16);
te dama: to become better, improved (verb; 13p);
te gunde: to become pregnant (verb; 20p);
te hasara: [sara, hasara] to spoil [intransitive] ; to spoil, to ruin [transitive] (verb;13)
te hinni: fester, suppurate, run, discharge pus, matter
(verb, 16)
te jombo: to have an ulcer; to ulcerate, to fester (verb; 16)

teeji, teejo {teji, tejo} new (adjective; 7p)

teejiize, teejiizo seed (noun; 15)

teko, tekwa maker (noun; 11); (also definite of) teku

teku, teko sea, lake, ocean (noun; 22)

teli, telo intestines, entrails (noun; 10, 20p)

teesam {taasam} station, bush taxi stop (noun)

tilas necessity, must, should [usually used with subjunctive] (adverb/noun; 10p)

tili, tiliyo kick [with foot] (noun)
sohon tiliyo: immediately, this very instant (adverb; 17p)

tin {tiŋ} to be heavy (verb;17)
tin, tino [*] {tiŋ}: heavy (adjective; 17p)

tinandi {tiŋendi} make heavy, weigh down

tinay, tina {tinnay/tiŋey/tiŋay, tiŋa} weight; heaviness; burden (noun; 17)

tinyan, tinyaηo [tiŋyoŋ] fact of being heavy; weight (noun; 7)

tira letter, book, paper with writing or printing (noun; 7p)

tita stool (noun; 24p)

to [#]: to come up to, to equal, to overtake, to arrive at, to catch up to, to be full, to be worthy, to deserve (verb; 7p)
to ga: [abbreviation of watodin ga] next, after that, then
(adjective; 11p)
To! "O.K.", expression of attention, agreement, satisfaction: "Check!", "Well!" (interjection; 8, 15)

toanto, toanta arrived, ful, completed (adjective)

tobey hare [mammal] (noun; 5 list)

toboy, toboyo rabbit [mammal] (noun; 25p, 5 list)

toka white-bellied bustard [bird] (noun; 5 list)

tokkay {tokey}: jackalberry, African ebony
[Diospyros mespiliformis] (noun; culture pages)

toko [koto] to cough [Dandis for "koto"] (verb; 16p)

tomati, tomato (F); tomato (noun; 8)

ton to burn [transitive] (verb; 18p)

toonandi {toonendi}  to fill up, to fulfil; to make arrive, to make achieve (verb; 19p)

tondi, tondo stone, rock (noun; 22)

tondi beri, tondi bero mountain, hill (noun; 22)

tonko, tonkwa {toηko, toηka} red hot pepper [Capsicum annuum] (noun; 16p)

tonton to add, to increase, to make more (verb; 6p, 15)

tooko, tookwa {tookow, tokowa} he who has arrived (noun)

torko, torka [bruweti, bilibala] cart; wheelbarrow (noun)

Tooru nobles of the spirit world; deities of nature (noun; culture pages)

tooru to tear; to sacrifice a chicken with the nails in the way of the Songhai priests (verb)

tooyan, tooyaŋo {tooyoŋ, /o} action of arriving, - reaching (noun)

tsourbela Sudan bustard [bird] (noun; 5 list)

tu to reply, to answer (verb; 18p)

tufa to spit, to spit out (verb; 20p)

tugu to hide, to conceal (verb; 21)

tukey to stand up, to rise, to get up (verb; 13)

tun to get up, to stand up [not "to be standing"], to rise; to begin [work action] (verb; 9p, 19p)
tun jirbi: wake up (verb; 12)

tunandi to awaken, to stand something up that is lying down, to stir something that has settled or is cooking, to lift upright (verb; 19p)

tundu, [?] buttocks (noun; 10)

tuntungari bushbuck [mammal] (noun; 5 list)

turare, turaro perfume (noun)

turi, turo tress, braid of hair
turu to braid, to dress hair, to do one's hair (verb; 15p)
turuko, tutukwa {turukow, /a} hairdresser, hair stylist
turuyaη, turuyaηo {turyoη, turyoηo} the action of braiding, of doing one's hair

tuuri, tuuro tree; wood; plant of any kind; medicine (noun; 6, 13p)
tuuri baano: twig, sprig
tuuri banda: bark [of tree]
tuuri bine: core of tree trunk
tuuri boη: faggot
tuuri kaaji: root [of tree]
tuuri kambe: branch; bough, limb
tuuri kopto: leaf [of tree]
tuuri nya: fruit tree; tree (noun; 13)

last updates: 10 maart 2012