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Malagasy
Etymology 1
From Swahili bakuli, from Arabic بَاقُولْ (bāqūl).[1]
Noun
bakoly
- crockery (dish, cup or bowl)
Etymology 2
From French bancoulier (“candlenut”).
Noun
bakoly
- candlenut (Aleurites moluccanus)
- tung oil tree (Vernicia fordii)
- mu oil tree (Vernicia montana)
References
- ^ Alexander Adelaar (2009) “Loanwords in Malagasy”, in Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor, editors, Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 731 of 717-746