malinke in English

noun
1
a member of a people living mainly in Senegal, Mali, and Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast).
The Malinkes of Upper Guinea trace their ancestry to the founders of the great Mali Empire.
2
the Mande language of the Malinke.
We don't speak Malinke , we don't farm.
adjective
1
relating to the Malinke or their language.
The group's name means ‘one skin’ in the Malinke language.

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1. French Boubou (sense 1) probably imitative of its call; Boubou (sense 2) from Malinke bubu.

2. [1590–1600; < Sp < Portuguese < a West African language (compare Wolof, Malinke Banana, Vai (Mande language of Liberia) bana)]

3. In the Malinke language, the instrument Balafon is a combination of two words ‘Balan,’ the name of the instrument, and ‘fon,’ which means to play

4. The examples he gives about Maya show that it is probably a synthetic analytical language too but having reached a more complex syntax since they build compounds with the specifier in front of the specified main "noun."In Malinke the "werewolf" (the man who is an animal predator) is a nama-koro in which "nama" is a wiseman, and "koro" is a