Husk vs Bambara - What's the difference?
husk | bambara |
The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside
Any form of useless, dried-up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something
The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
To say huskily, to utter in a husky voice.
* The French captain did not immediately respond; he looked at his men with a miserable expression [...]; still he hesitated, drooped, and finally husked , "Je me rends," with a look still more wretched. — (Naomi Novik), "His Majesty's Dragon"
A West-African people.
# A member of that people.
A language spoken mainly in Mali by as many as six million people. Fewer numbers of people speak or understand the language, or dialects of it, in Senegal Burkina Faso, , and Gambia.
As a noun husk
is the dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside.As a verb husk
is to remove husks from.As a proper noun Bambara is
a West-African people.husk
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l), (l). Alternate etymology derives husk from Low German .)Noun
(wikipedia husk) (en noun)- A coconut has a very thick husk .
- His attorney was a dried-up husk of a man.
