dalci-waara

Afar
Dalci-waará.

Etymology

Literally: "Eternal life of a striped hyena", reanalysed as a feminine noun. Traditionally, the aardwolf was thought to be as a shrunken (from old age) striped hyena.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dʌlħiwaːˈɾʌ/
  • Hyphenation: dal‧ci‧waa‧ra

Noun

dalci-waará f 

  1. aardwolf (Proteles cristatus)

Declension
Declension of dalci-waará
absolutive dalci-waará
predicative dalci-waará
subjective dalci-waará
genitive dalci-waará

References
  • Didier Morin (2012), “dalci-waara”, in Dictionnaire afar-français (Djibouti, Erythrée, Ethiopie), Karthala, →ISBN
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