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• dottabe adult, be important; ndottijo, ndolten, full-grown man; inportant man, elder; ndottiku, prowess; prime of life.
• ngamjajongamja en, a man with- out a wife, whether a divorced man, or a widower; ngamjüku is the abs. n.
• leslower lip; hundakijo, spokes- man; hunduköznl, hunduküft, a turban with a fold under the
• babafather; bûbiräwo, babiräle, id.; n.-p. pl. babaji; dim. Babi- rayel; hú ma, your father ; bam- ma, curse a man by his father; baba-sûdu, bäba-süduen, foster- father; Baba Kasimu, the Pro- phet Muhammad; babe ladde, the lon; babiraga, father- hond.
• boyabe a long time at or over; mi vida labi man bova ha mako, I dont want him to take long over the knife; boima, formerly.
• ertabe permanently lame; erto- togo, lame man, one who 'dots and carries one'; cf. jaggida.
• gagasugn'en, head slave; the ngala man in charge of the boys dur- ing their scclusion for circum- cision,
• Gâsagüsijì, hair; gasnungral, hairy; gasdina, be hairy; gasdi- dindo and gasdiniço, a hairy man.
• lübalnodun, lo smell, have alüba, lübdum, lo smell, have a smell; esp. a savoury smell; goddo rindatiko kachudun, ndo wia gidi lübdum, a man does nol carry a stinking load and then say he docs not want one with an appetizing smell; limna (for lulna), to make to smell;
• ÀdamaAdnm; bi-adama, man-
• borwaboroudum, smooth; slip- pery; slimy; sticky; boroudo, smooth-skinned hairless man; borgerina, make smooth.