gballi
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Noun
mat of woven grass, a “zana” mat (large and thick, used upright as walling and fencing)
- bɛ zaŋ nyini bahila katiŋ’ kaman bimpɔŋ la ka chɛ a gballi they throw you out away from your tomb like something rotten.
- Pololi yi ʒi shɛlikam amaa o mi lɔŋ gballi. Even if the toad doesn’t know anything at all, at least it knows the grave of the frog.
- (a) gbir’ amaŋmaŋ’ gballi kpe n-chibiri daboli zuɣu tampiɔŋ ni (you) are digging yourself a grave here and excavating a tomb in the rock.
- O daa kul bela gbala maa shee He just lived where the graves were.
- Izraɛlnim’ zaa ni kum o kuli, ka sɔɣ’ o, dama o kɔŋko n-nyɛ Jɛrɔbɔam bi’ so bɛ ni yɛn zaŋ sɔɣi gballi ni all the Israelites will celebrate his funeral and bury him, because he alone of Jeroboam's children will be buried in a grave.