bangulá

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Saramaccan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Probably from Kongo báángúla (to force (open), to break open, to pull down, to disclose), from Proto-Bantu *-bang-ud (to open up).[1] Cognate of Aukan bangula.

Adjective[edit]

bangulá

  1. reckless

Ideophone[edit]

bangulá

  1. Signifies walking drunkenly, to sway

Noun[edit]

bangulá

  1. (Matawai) nonsense[2]

Verb[edit]

bangulá

  1. to trick, to cheat

References[edit]

  1. ^ Norval Smith (2015) “A preliminary list of probable Kikongo (KiKoongo) lexical items in the Surinam Creoles”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 427
  2. ^ Chris de Beet, Miriam Sterman (1981) People in between: the Matawai Maroons of Suriname[1], Meppel: Krips Repro, page 263