Bengal bean plant, cow-itch Mucuna pruriens A vine with hairy pods which cause intolerable itching on contact with the skin. If people are gathering for a purpose you disapprove of, gather the hairs of the pod in your palm and blow them out into the crowd which will quickly disperse.
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What does “lam” mean in Dagbanli?
Bengal bean plant, cow-itch Mucuna pruriens A vine with hairy pods which cause intolerable itching on contact with the skin. If people are gathering for a purpose you disapprove of, gather the hairs of the pod in your palm and blow them out into the crowd which will quickly disperse.
Also spelled Dagbani — both spellings refer to the same Mabia (Gur) language spoken in northern Ghana.
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Bengal bean plant, cow-itch Mucuna pruriens A vine with hairy pods which cause intolerable itching on contact with the skin. If people are gathering for a purpose you disapprove of, gather the hairs of the pod in your palm and blow them out into the crowd which will quickly disperse.
Adi nyɛla moɣu din taara
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lam
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Sentences using “lam”
Real-world usage from Mozilla Common Voice and the University of Ghana HCI Lab corpus.