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Fula
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Fula-Serer *mal/ro, whence also Serer maalo. From a root widespread in Atlantic and Mande languages. May be borrowed from Soninke máarò.
Related to Wolof maalo.
Noun
maaro ngo (plural maarooji ɗi)
- (Pular) rice
References
- ^ Konstantin Pozdniakov (2022) Proto-Fula–Sereer: Lexicon, morphophonology, and noun classes (Niger-Congo Compartative Studies), volume 3, Berlin, Germany: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 102