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Etymology
From Hausa dankali.
Noun
dankali
- sweet potato
Usage notes
Synonyms
Hausa
Pronunciation
Noun
dànkalī̀ m (possessed form dànkalìn)
- a potato, especially a sweet potato
Synonyms
Descendants
References
- Charles Henry Robinson, Dictionary of the Hausa language, volume 1 (1913)
- Paul Newman, A Hausa-English Dictionary (2007)
- Roger Blench, Archaeology, Language, and the African Past →ISBN, 2006), page 230, The role of Hausa in diffusing terms for sweet potato