bakoly

Malagasy

Etymology 1

From Swahili bakuli, from Arabic بَاقُولْ (bāqūl).[1]

Noun

bakoly

  1. crockery (dish, cup or bowl)

Etymology 2

From French bancoulier (“candlenut”).

Noun

bakoly

  1. candlenut (Aleurites moluccanus)
  2. tung oil tree (Vernicia fordii)
  3. mu oil tree (Vernicia montana)

References

  1. ^ Alexander Adelaar (2009) “Loanwords in Malagasy”, in Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor, editors, Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 731 of 717-746
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