baaladi

Afar

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

baaladí f 

1. bucket

References

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