alabe

See also: álabe and alabé

Hausa
a wallet

Etymology

Clearly related to Tamasheq elăbăy (“tobacco pouch”) and Zarma álbày (“leather purse”), but the direction of borrowing is unclear.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʔà.lá.bèː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [ʔà.lə́.bèː]

Noun

àlabḕ m (plural àlàbai, possessed form àlabèn)

  1. leather wallet (often carried hanging from the neck)

References
  • Kossmann, Maarten (2005) Berber Loanwords in Hausa (Berber Studies; 12), Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN

Spanish

Verb

alabe

  1. inflection of alabar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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