dabino

Hausa

Etymology

From dialectal Kanuri debína (cf. standard Kanuri difúno), from a Berber language; see Proto-Berber *te-βăyne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dá.bíː.nòː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [də́.bíː.nòː]

Noun

dabīnṑ m (feminine dabīnùwā, plural dàbī̀nai, possessed form dabīnòn)

1. date (fruit)
2. date palm

Descendants

• → Yoruba: làbídùn

References

• Kossmann, Maarten (2005) Berber Loanwords in Hausa (Berber Studies; 12), Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN