mbeelu
Fula
Etymology
From Proto-Fula-Serer *mbel (shadow), whence also Serer mbelyook.[1]
Noun
mbeelu ngu (plural beeli ɗi)
- ghost, spectre, phantom
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 87