koklolã

From koklo (“chicken”) +‎ lã (“meat, flesh”). The sense of “African baobab” is from its fruit's texture resembling chicken meat.

• IPA^(key): /kò.kló.lã̀/, [kò.kl̃ó.lã̀], [kò.kló.lã̀]

kòklólã̀ (definite singular kòklólã̀ lá or kòklólã̀à, collective plural kòklólã̀wó, definite collective plural kòklólã̀àwó)

1. chicken (meat)
2. African baobab tree (Adansonia digitata)

• koklo (“chicken”)
• koklonɔ (“hen”)
• koklotsu (“rooster”)
• koklovi (“chick”)

• Westermann, Dietrich Verfasser (1905) “koklolã”, in Wörterbuch der Ewe-Sprache [Dictionary of the Ewe language]‎^[1] (in German), Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, section I, page 274