A DICTIONARY GBARI LANGUAGE - Roger Blench
A DICTIONARY GBARI LANGUAGE - Roger Blench
A DICTIONARY GBARI LANGUAGE - Roger Blench
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A Dictionary of the Gbari Language Trial Edition <strong>Roger</strong> <strong>Blench</strong> and Musa Doma<br />
to spoil<br />
Nyabolo p.n. Generic term for peoples other than Gbari and Hausa<br />
nyaÎi n. food (general)<br />
nyaÎyiÎyi n. food<br />
nya 'nya v.p. to dance (without named dance)<br />
nya yina int. What?<br />
Commonly shortened to nyana (q.v.)<br />
nyakai n. Writer or secretary<br />
nyakiyi n. Tailor<br />
nyakpe n. Domestic animal<br />
nyakun n. Drum made from a pot with a single skin. Especially associated with the<br />
Gunu festival.<br />
nyalogo n. Fish. A scaleless fish.<br />
nyambi n. Load<br />
nyana int. What?<br />
He sun nyana? What are you doing?<br />
nyando n. Roasting oven for shea-nuts and crops built in the centre of a woman's room.<br />
Not very common nowadays<br />
nyankei n. violent madman<br />
nyanya n. dancing<br />
nyanya pron. anything<br />
nyanyanya pron. everything<br />
nyapina n. abscess on the body<br />
nyasere n. Shade of a tree<br />
nyasha n. Iron<br />
Metal<br />
Zinc roof<br />
nyatugopa n. headtie<br />
nyavwevwe n. Insect<br />
nyi v. to lick<br />
emwi nyi mu ebwa the dog is licking my hand<br />
nyi v. to dig<br />
nyibajya n. Expert drummer<br />
nyibo n. anus<br />
nyibo n. gap due to loss of teeth<br />
nyibori n. gap-toothed person n. anus<br />
nyiga n. tooth<br />
nyigatsugo n. Person with protruding teeth<br />
nyigbango n. Old woman<br />
nyigbei n. Tree<br />
Wild custard-apple<br />
Annona senegalensis<br />
nyigbmi n. piles (infection)<br />
nyigo n. Wife<br />
n. Female<br />
nyigosunsun n. Fiancée. A woman who is affianced must always go for the harvest in her<br />
proposed husband's house.<br />
nyigotsugo n. Married man<br />
nyigoyi n. Female (of animals)<br />
nyigoza n. Woman<br />
Girl<br />
nyikpwekpwe n. Chin<br />
nyingbaja n. drummer<br />
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