lìfu
Sense 1
English: Translation
head toward
Hausa: Translation
nufa
Part of Speech
verb
Example Sentence
ngai lìfû gen
English: Example Sentence
the person headed west
Sense 2
English: Translation
pound to sharpen a blade or to roughen grindstone
Hausa: Translation
koɗa
Part of Speech
verb
Example Sentence
lìfuu ɓàadi
English: Example Sentence
he sharpened the knife
Example Sentence
lìfaa bìni/lìfaa kàalà/lìfaa ɓàadì
English: Example Sentence
roughening a grindstone, sharpening a hole, sharpening a knife
Morphology
Verb class A1. Verbal noun: lìfaa.
Source
schuh-2009p. 90 (PDF p. 12), s.v. “head toward”; p. 102 (PDF p. 24), s.v. “sharpen”; p. 48 (PDF p. 66), s.v. “lìfu”