dabino
Hausa
Etymology
From dialectal Kanuri debína (cf. standard Kanuri difúno), from a Berber language; see Proto-Berber *te-βăyne.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dá.bíː.nòː/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [də́.bíː.nòː]
Noun
dabīnṑ m (feminine dabīnùwā, plural dàbī̀nai, possessed form dabīnòn)
- date (fruit)
- date palm
References
- Kossmann, Maarten (2005) Berber Loanwords in Hausa (Berber Studies; 12), Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN, ISSN 1618-1425