Wiktionary:Requested entries (Wolof)

C

 * ceebu jën

D

 * dëkk, to live in (v.), a city (n., class b)

J

 * jàpp; see etymology section of
 * Moore 2014 glosses jàpp lool as “be very busy”, but this doesn't fit with the supposed Wolof proverb (mooy jàpp “one catches a monkey”) in a way that is obvious to me. Cnilep (talk) 01:10, 21 September 2022 (UTC)


 * julli

M

 * maa ngi fi rekk
 * muñ: the social expectations of women to be demur in Senegalese/West African society
 * mooy; see etymology section of
 * Moore 2014 glosses this as “”, which I assume is “third-person subject/focus pronoun”, rather like as a pronoun, or impersonal . Am I correct about that? Cnilep (talk) 01:06, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

N

 * ñaay; see etymology section of
 * ndànk (as above)
 * nuyoo

S

 * sangu

T

 * toog, to sit down (stative verb)
 * toq, to drip. For some reason this link goes to , an Uzbek word

W

 * 1) walaat gi, which is some sort of unit of capacity