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daaŋa

1

Noun

Audio

cooking-place, kitchen (cooking-area in traditional house: may be between two rooms (rural, small house) or area windproofed with low walls and/or canopied with a roof on pillars in the middle of the courtyard (large or town house)

  • diri kaman daaŋa ni buɣim la burning like the fire in a fireplace.
  • (polɔya ni) kpe ... a yiŋ’ daansi ni min’ a yiŋ’ saɣiduɣuri ni ʒiɛduɣuri ni zaa (toads will) enter ... the cooking-areas of your house and get into the t.z. pots and stewpots.

2

Noun

Audio

hearth, fire-stand (three stones maybe plastered with mud, supporting round-bottomed pots over the fire)

  • sara maligu bimbini zuɣu daaŋa the fire-hearth of the sacrifice-altar.
  • Niŋmiya dari kuli daaŋa ni Put wood to feed the fireplace.
  • di bemi kaman kuriti daaŋkpali buɣim ni na la it was like an iron 'furnace'.

3

Noun

Audio

tongs

  • salima sala daansi golden charcoal-tongs.

4

Noun

Audio

a fire-pot, brazier, censer (portable)

  • Bɛ zaɣ’ yino kam daa gbibila o tulaale zim tuɣilibu daaŋa o nuu ni Each one of them had his censer in his hand.