Dictionary of the Hausa language Volume 2 - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... (= a providential visitation) azaba; 3. plague 123 playing (= an annoyance) alale, wohal(l)a. plague, tr. v. (= to vex) wohalshe; cf. annoy. plain, n. jili, pi. filaye, sar(r)ari, karikara or karkara, pi. karkarori and karkaroni, konga or kanga; the battle p. kangan fad(d)a; a wide p. baiala or bay ala. plain, adj. (of language simpie and open) sar(r)ari and asar(r)ari, these words also = piainly. # plainly, adv.cf. prec. plait, tr. v. tubka, tufka or tupka, kis(s)o, yin kis(s)o. plaiting, of hair, n. doka, kis(s)o; p. of hair in two lines jaki; hasty p. of woman's hair kumbuchi. plaits, coli. n. (of woman's hair) bijaji. plan, n. (= scheme, device) wayo and waya. plank, n. faskari, gungunie, pi. gungumai, rumpa, pi. rum funa. planks, to make into, v. yin faskari. plant, tr. v. 1. (=to set or sow in the ground) shipka or shuka, yin shipka, dessa the last of pianting trees; 2. (= to set or piace) sa, e.g. there was no place to p. our footsteps babu wurinda mu sa matakai bissa. plant, n. special names of piants, most of which are not as yet identified: an aquatic p. shalla; p. from which a scent is pro-, cured jiji; p. from which native ropes are made ramma; a p. the leaves of which are used as medicine raidore; a leguminous p. zamarke; a me-dicinal p. (senna?) filasko; a p. resembling a tomato gauta, pi. gautaye; a p. with edible root mirmirto; a p. with red flower and poisonous nut chini da zugu. plantain, n. ay aba appiied both to tree and fruit, also used to denote the banana. planter, n. manomi and monomi, pi. mononia. planting, of seeds, n. biso. plants, small, coli. n. shipka or shuka. plaster, tr. v. (of walls etc.) yabe. plastered, participial adj. yababe, fem. yababa, pi. yababu. plate, n. (flat piates are not used by the Hausas) see...

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