fitila

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from Songhay, from Arabic [Term?] (“wick”).

Noun

fìtilā̀ f (plural fìtìlū, possessed form fìtilàr̃)

  1. lamp

References

  • Charles Henry Robinson, Dictionary of the Hausa language, volume 1 (1913)
  • Paul Newman, A Hausa-English Dictionary (2007)
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