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Fula
Etymology
From Proto-Fula-Serer *mbaal, whence also Serer mbaal (“sheep”).[1]
Noun
baalii (plural baali)
- (Pular) sheep
- Synonyms: (Maasina Fulfulde) mbaalu, (Adamawa) mbaala, (Maasina Fulfulde, Western Niger Fulfulde) baali
References
- Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
- Richard Smith, Urs Niggli, Dictionnaire fulfulde - anglais - français, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2016.
- ^ Konstantin Pozdniakov (2022) Proto-Fula–Sereer: Lexicon, morphophonology, and noun classes (Niger-Congo Compartative Studies), volume 3, Berlin, Germany: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 87