dankali
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See also: daŋkali
Fula[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
dankali
Usage notes[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
Hausa[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
dànkalī̀ m (possessed form dànkalìn)
- a potato, especially a sweet potato
Synonyms[edit]
- kūdaku, kūdàkū
- lāwúr (Sokoto dialect)
Descendants[edit]
- → Berom: dànkál
- → Bura: daŋkali
- → Kanuri: dangàli
- → Longuda: daŋkali
- → Peere: daŋkale
- → Wandala: daŋkali
References[edit]
- Charles Henry Robinson, Dictionary of the Hausa language, volume 1 (1913)
- Paul Newman, A Hausa-English Dictionary (2007)
- Roger Blench, Archaeology, Language, and the African Past →ISBN, 2006), page 230, The role of Hausa in diffusing terms for sweet potato