maaro

Fula

Alternative forms

(Adamawa) maaroori

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.^[1] Related to Wolof maalo.

Noun

maaro ngo (plural maarooji ɗi)

(Pular) rice

References

Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.

^ 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

[1] 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

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