dankali
See also: daŋkali
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
dankali
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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