kàlaa
Sense 1
English: Translation
feel
Part of Speech
verb
Example Sentence
nà kàlâ tàmu
English: Example Sentence
I felt good
Sense 2
English: Translation
hear; understand
Hausa: Translation
ji
Part of Speech
verb
Example Sentence
Do ka kala “dayu, dayu!” bai ye, ka kale “popo!”
English: Example Sentence
If you don't hear “quit doing that!”, you will hear “sorry!”
Sense 3
English: Translation
smell; taste
Part of Speech
verb
Example Sentence
sai kali me tamu ka futu bai,
English: Example Sentence
then he tasted something of unlimited good taste
Morphology
Verb class B. Verbal noun: kàlee.
Source
schuh-2009p. 87 (PDF p. 9), s.v. “feel”; p. 90 (PDF p. 12), s.v. “hear”; p. 102 (PDF p. 24), s.v. “smell”; p. 105 (PDF p. 27), s.v. “taste”; p. 107 (PDF p. 29), s.v. “understand”; p. 39 (PDF p. 57), s.v. “kàlā”