lawur
Hausa
Noun
lāwúr m
- (obsolete or dialectal, chiefly of Sokoto) sweet potato
Synonyms
- dànkalī̀ m
- kūdaku, kūdàkū
Descendants
- → Ikulu: àláwúr
References
- Charles Henry Robinson, Dictionary of the Hausa language, volume 1 (1913)
- Roger Blench, Archaeology, Language, and the African Past →ISBN, 2006), page 230, The role of Hausa in diffusing terms for sweet potato