bawan Allah: Difference between revisions

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Often stated to be borrowed from English book, but Paul Newman disputes this.

bōkṑ m (possessed form bōkòn)

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-[[bawa]]n [[Allah]] <abbr title="masculine gender">''m''</abbr>[[Category:Masculine gender Hausa nouns]]
+====Etymology====
-# [[slave]]/[[servant]] of God
+Often stated to be borrowed from [[Category:Hausa_terms_derived_from_English]][[:Category:Hausa_terms_derived_from_English| English]] book, but Paul Newman disputes this.
-# innocent way to describe someone (baiwar Allah = <abbr title="feminine gender">''f''</abbr> )
-<!--begin google translation-->
+===Noun===
+bōkṑ <abbr title="masculine gender">''m''</abbr>[[Category:Masculine gender Hausa nouns]] (possessed form bōkòn)
+# [[fraud]], [[deceit]], [[trick]]
+# [[a]] [[mock]] [[or]] [[imitation]] [[version]] [[of]] [[something]] [[real]]
+# [[Western]] [[education]]
+# [[Boko]] [[alphabet]] ([[Latin]] [[script]] [[used]] [[to]] [[write]] [[Hausa]])
-== [[Category:Google Translations]][[:Category:Google Translations|Google translation]] of [[bawan]] [[Allah]] ==
+[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boko#Hausa] [[Category:English Wiktionary Import]][[Category:Hausa lemmas]]
-[[Servant]] [[of]] [[God]].
-<!--end google translation-->[[Category:Hausa lemmas]]