Gambaru

See also: gambaru

English

Proper noun

Gambaru

  1. A town in Borno, Nigeria.
    • 2015 February 20, Ngala Killian Chimtom, “Soldiers from Cameroon, Chad take on Boko Haram at Nigerian border”, in CNN‎[1]:
      A pickup loaded with Chadian troops crosses the bridge into Gambaru to reinforce their peers locked in an hours-long heavy exchange of gunfire with Boko Haram fighters.
    • 2015 March 3, Ngala Killian Chimtom, “Cameroon in for long fight as its youth join Boko Haram”, in CNN‎[2]:
      In January, Boko Haram struck Fotokol, a Cameroonian town separated by only a bridge from Gambarou[sic], Nigeria, a stronghold of the Islamist extremists. The attackers killed more than 400 people.

Baatonum

Etymology

Folk etymology suggests it comes from gam (“elsewhere”) +‎ barum (“language”), literally “Language of elsewhere” or gam (“elsewhere”) +‎ bàru (“adjective relating to anything Baatonu”), literally “That which is not the Baatonu”

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡàm.bà.rū/

Noun

Gambaru (plural Gambarusu, focus Gambaruwa, plural focus Gambarusa)

  1. Hausa people
  2. Hausa language

Usage notes

  • g-class noun

Descendants

  • Yoruba: Gàm̀bàrí

References

  • Barassounon, Pierre, Biɔ, Sanu, Biɔ, Thébault, Goragui, Léonard, Soutar, Jean (17 February 2021) Dictionnaire Baatonum‎[3], Philadelphia: SIL International
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