bawan Allah: Difference between revisions

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-====Etymology====
+[[bawa]]n [[Allah]] <abbr title="masculine gender">''m''</abbr>[[Category:Masculine gender Hausa nouns]]
-Often stated to be borrowed from [[Category:Hausa_terms_derived_from_English]][[:Category:Hausa_terms_derived_from_English| English]] book, but Paul Newman disputes this.
+# [[slave]]/[[servant]] of God
+# innocent way to describe someone (baiwar Allah = <abbr title="feminine gender">''f''</abbr> )
-===Noun===
-bōkṑ <abbr title="masculine gender">''m''</abbr>[[Category:Masculine gender Hausa nouns]] (possessed form bōkòn)
-# [[fraud]], [[deceit]], [[trick]]
-# [[a]] [[mock]] [[or]] [[imitation]] [[version]] [[of]] [[something]] [[real]]
-# [[Western]] [[education]]
-# [[Boko]] [[alphabet]] ([[Latin]] [[script]] [[used]] [[to]] [[write]] [[Hausa]])
-[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boko#Hausa] [[Category:English Wiktionary Import]][[Category:Hausa lemmas]]