malinke|malinkes in English
noun
member of people who live in sections of West Africa (Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal and Gambia); member of a Mandingo people; language spoken by the Malinke
Use "malinke|malinkes" in a sentence
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