baalii

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Fula[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Fula-Serer *mbaal, whence also Serer mbaal (“sheep”).^[1]

Noun[edit]

baalii (plural baali)

(Pular) sheep
Synonyms: (Maasina Fulfulde) mbaalu, (Adamawa) mbaala, (Maasina Fulfulde, Western Niger Fulfulde) baali

References[edit]

Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
Richard Smith, Urs Niggli, Dictionnaire fulfulde - anglais - français, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2016.

^ Konstantin Pozdniakov (2022) Proto-Fula–Sereer: Lexicon, morphophonology, and noun classes (Niger-Congo Compartative Studies), volume 3, Berlin, Germany: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 87

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