bifi
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Fula
[edit]Noun
[edit]bifi ɗi
Dialectal variants
[edit]- kaaruwaaru (Adamawa)
- mbooy (Fouta-toro)
- duluuru (Liptaako)
- ulgu (Maasina)
- cuddi (Maasina)
Ternate
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly from N- (“nominalizer”) + fifi (“to suck”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bifi (Jawi بيفي)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh