bifi
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Fula[edit]
Noun[edit]
bifi ɗi
Dialectal variants[edit]
- kaaruwaaru (Adamawa)
- mbooy (Fouta-toro)
- duluuru (Liptaako)
- ulgu (Maasina)
- cuddi (Maasina)
Ternate[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Possibly from N- (“nominalizer”) + fifi (“to suck”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bifi (Jawi بيفي)
Descendants[edit]
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