ngulu

ngulu (plural not attested)

1. A type of sword used for executions by Bantu people.

From the same root as wulgo.

ngulu ngu

1. (Adamawa) fire

• Tourneux, Henry, Daïrou, Yaya (1999) Vocabulaire peul du monde rural : Maroua-Garoua (Cameroun)‎^[1] (in French)

From Proto-Central New South Wales *ŋuluŋ, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *ŋu(r)lu.

• IPA^(key): /ŋulu/

ngulu

1. face, forehead

• Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)
• Peter Austin, A Reference Dictionary of Gamilaraay, northern New South Wales (1993)

From Proto-Bantu *ngʊ̀dʊ̀bè.

ngulu (plural jingulu)

1. pig, pork
2. (figurative) glutton

• Junior, Antonio de Assis (1967) Dicionário Kimbundu-Português - Linguístico, Botânico, Histórico E Corográfico (in Portuguese), Luanda, Angola: Argente, Santos & C.^a, L.^da, page 46
• Matta, Joaquim (1893) Ensaio de Diccionario Kimbúndu-Portuguez (in Portuguese), Lisbon, Portugal: Editora Antonio Maria Pereira, page 124

ngulu

1. pig

From Proto-Bantu *ngʊ̀dʊ̀bè.

ngulu class 9

1. pig

From Proto-Central New South Wales *ŋuluŋ, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *ŋu(r)lu.

ngulu

1. face, forehead

• Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)

From ngo (“I”) +‎ -lu (“plural suffix in pronouns”).

ngulu

1. we

• P. T. Abraham (2005) A Grammar of Nyishi Language‎^[2], Delhi: Farsight Publishers and Distributors