alabe

See also: álabe and alabé

Hausa

a wallet

Etymology

Clearly related to Tamasheq elăbăy (“tobacco pouch”) and Zarma álbày (“leather purse”), but the direction of borrowing is unclear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔà.lá.bèː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔà.lə́.bèː]

Noun

àlabḕ m (plural àlàbai, possessed form àlabèn)

1. leather wallet (often carried hanging from the neck)

References

• Kossmann, Maarten (2005) Berber Loanwords in Hausa (Berber Studies; 12), Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN

Spanish

Verb

alabe

1. inflection of alabar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative