alama

alama

1. genitive singular of alam

• hàlāmā̀

From Arabic عَلَامَة (ʕalāma).

• IPA^(key): /ʔà.láː.màː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔà.láː.màː]

• Audio (Nigeria):

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àlāmā̀ f (plural alāmōmī or àlā̀mū, possessed form àlāmàr̃)

1. mark (indication for reference or measurement)
2. sign, symbol
3. indication, evidence

• Newman, Paul (2007) A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, pages 4–5.

Borrowed from Gorontalo [Term?]

alama (plural alama-alama)

1. incense from Shorea

• “alama” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Arabic عَلَامَة (ʕalāma).

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈlɑ.mɑ/

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alama class IX (plural alama class X)

1. mark, grade (indication for reference or measurement)
2. sign, symbol
3. scar

• alama ya kidole (“fingerprint”)
• alama ya mkato (“comma”)
• alama ya mshangao (“exclamation mark”)
• alama ya reli (“hash symbol”)