nyereku

Nubi

Etymology

From Bari [Term?]. Cognate with Juba Arabic nyirikuuk.

Noun

nyerekú (plural nyerekuka or nyereka or yal or yala)

  1. child, kid
    Nyereku tai. ― My child.

References

  • Wellens, Ineke (2005) The Nubi Language of Uganda: an Arabic Creole in Africa, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →ISBN
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.