bifi

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Fula[edit]

Noun[edit]

bifi ɗi

  1. harmattan

Dialectal variants[edit]

Ternate[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Possibly from N- (nominalizer) +‎ fifi (to suck).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bifi (Jawi بيفي)

  1. ant

Descendants[edit]

  • North Moluccan Malay: bifi (ant)
    • Manado Malay: bifi (ant)

References[edit]

  • Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh