bifi
Fula edit
Noun edit
bifi ɗi
Dialectal variants edit
- kaaruwaaru (Adamawa)
- mbooy (Fouta-toro)
- duluuru (Liptaako)
- ulgu (Maasina)
- cuddi (Maasina)
Ternate edit
Etymology edit
Possibly from N- (“nominalizer”) + fifi (“to suck”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bifi (Jawi بيفي)
Descendants edit
References edit
- Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh