fitila

Borrowed from Songhay, from Arabic فَتِيلَة (fatīla, “wick”).

• IPA^(key): /fì.tí.làː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ɸɪ̀.tɪ́.làː]

fìtilā̀ f (plural fìtìlū, possessed form fìtilàr̃)

1. lamp, light (electronic device)

• Igala: ẹ̀mùtúlà
• Nupe: fìtíla
• Yoruba: fìtílà

• Charles Henry Robinson, Dictionary of the Hausa language, volume 1 (1913)
• Newman, Paul (2007) A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 63.

From Hausa fìtíla, from Songhay, ultimately from Arabic فَتِيلَة (fatīla).

• IPA^(key): /fì.tí.lā/

fìtíla (plural fìtílazhì)

1. lamp, candle, lantern

• فِتِلَ

From Hausa fìtilā̀, ultimately from Arabic فَتِيلَة (fatīla).

• IPA^(key): /fì.tí.là/

fìtílà

1. lamp