sababu

From Arabic سَبَبْ (sabab).

sababu

1. reason, cause, motive

• sabaabe

• sabimmbingol

• Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.

Borrowed from Arabic سَبَبْ (sabab).

• IPA^(key): /sá.bá.bù/

sábábù

1. permission
2. benevolent help

From Arabic سَبَبْ (sabab).

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sababu (n class, plural sababu)

1. motive
2. reason
3. cause

• Verbal derivations:
  • Causative: -sababisha (“to cause”)
  • Stative: -sababika

• Other derivations:
  • kwa sababu (“because”)

From Classical Malay سبب (sebab), from Arabic سَبَبْ (sabab).

• IPA^(key): [sa.ˈba.bu]

sababu (Jawi سبب)

1. because

• sabab (with vowel deletion)

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh