bankra
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bankra (plural bankras)
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bankra
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bankra (plural bankra dem, quantified bankra)
- basket, bankra
- Pack di bankra an ram dem in. For di bankra mus' full.
- Stuff as many of them as you can into the basket, because this basket needs to be full.
- 2002, Frederic G. Cassidy, Robert Brock Le Page, Dictionary of Jamaican English (in English), →ISBN, page 27:
- “BANKRA / bangkra , bóngkra / sb chiefly dial ; 1868 bankra , 1877 bunkra , 1895 bancra , 1934 bonkra ; < Twi boŋkárá ... 1934 Williams 36 , The Ashanti bonkara , a travelling basket , is the Jamaica bonkra , or as it is sometimes spelt bankra.”
References edit
- Richard Allsopp, editor (1996), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 79
- bankra – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary