firila
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Noun
a lamp
- o firila bi kpiri yuŋ her lamp does not go out at night.
- A yɛligu nyɛla n naba firila mini n soli neesim. Your word is the lamp of my feet and the light of my path.
- o ku nyo firila kolikol’ o yiŋ’ zaa m-bo li ni nimmoo she just lit a lamp and thoroughly swept her whole house in a serious search for it.
- Yaɣimɛriba ni mɛri neen’ shɛŋa m-bɔŋɔ furlanima, lakɔriti, yaɣiri jinlaa, ʒɛbahisi, nosaya mini neen’ shɛŋa din kam zaa pahi. These are the things that potters mould: lamps, ()-bowls, clay ablution-watervessels, soup-pots, fowls' drinking-pots and all sorts of other things.
- O mi ku kpihi firila mia din diri biɛlabiɛla. And he won't put out a lamp-wick which is burning small-small.