Afar edit

Etymology edit

Ultimately from Portuguese balde, via an Ethiopian Semitic language; compare Amharic ባልዲ (baldi).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /baːlaˈdi/, [baːlʌˈdɪ]
  • Hyphenation: baa‧la‧di

Noun edit

baaladí f 

  1. bucket

References edit

  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)