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English
Noun
kullum (plural kullums)
- Alternative form of coolung
Afar
Etymology
From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Oromo qurxummii, Sidamo qilximme, Somali kaluun.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkulːum/
- Hyphenation: kul‧lum
Noun
kúllum m (singulative kullúnta m)
- (collective) fish
Declension
Declension of kúllum
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absolutive
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kúllum
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predicative
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kúlluumu
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subjective
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kúllum
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genitive
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kúllum
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References
- E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “kullum”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
- Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle, Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2013 August) “Gender, Number and Agreement in Afar (Cushitic language)”, in 43th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, Leiden: Leiden University
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie), Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
Hausa
Etymology
From Arabic كُلّ (kull).
Pronunciation
Adverb
kullum
- always
- every (followed by a unit of time)