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chilo

1

Noun

kohl, antimony, mascara, eye-shadow (cosmetics)

bali2 chilo ‘apply mascara’
Bɔzuɣu ka a zaŋ salima nɛma niŋ amaŋa, ka bali chilo? Why do you put on gold jewellery and mascara?
Jɛrigu m-mali chilimua din mali gbura m-baani o chilo. It is a foolish woman who uses an eyebrow stick that is not straight and smooth to put on eye powder.

2

Noun

a medicine that enables one to see witches

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Wula ka Dagbamba booni "store"?

AAshibiti
BFeera
CShikuru
DShitogu

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baaŋa

1

Noun

singer

tana shingu

1

Noun

leaves of cassava

tulaalemaana

1

Noun

a perfumer, pomade-maker

O ni ti zaŋ yi bipuɣinsi leeg o tulaalemaaniba He will take your daughters for perfumers. [1SA 8:13]

bilibili

1

Ideophone

uprising (behaving disorderly)

Bɛ niŋdila bilibili. They behave in a disorderly fashion.

dirigu

1

Noun

spoon

1

Adjective

eatable

2

Noun

bird

3

Noun

sharp

4

Noun

syphilitic sores in the nose

puui

1

Verb

to lie in heaps

2

Verb

to be full to overflowing

3

Verb

to be plentiful

tiŋbia

1

Noun

native, local inhabitant, citizen

dirinyina

1

Noun

fork

maŋsulinsi

1

Noun

independence

2

Noun

freedom (as opposed to slavery)

wɔrigu

1

Noun

fallow ground that is cleared and prepared for planting cereal grains