nawlan

Fula

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Fula-Serer *nawl (co-wife), whence also Serer nawle (“person of the same age, equal, comrade, companion”).[1]

Noun

nawlan (plural nawliraaɓe ɓe) (Augmentative nawliraawo)

(Pular) co-wife
Synonym: siinaa

See also

siinirgol

References

Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.

Konstantin Pozdniakov (2022) Proto-Fula–Sereer: Lexicon, morphophonology, and noun classes (Niger-Congo Comparative Studies), volume 3, Berlin, Germany: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 126

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