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Soqotri Lexicon
بٞتْرُول
betróľ or betrór
basic morphological information
text examples
égdaḥk betróľ men ḥadíboʰ be-gerégen wa-ˁö́ḳaḷk toʸh be-ḳáˁar wa-níšik aḷ-ḷeẓ̂ẓ̂áˁ ber betróľ wa-tóˀo ˁemédoʰ ˁemέroʰ ˁážeʰ men gerégen di-betróľ di-šemˁíyyeʰ wa-ḷaṭ keḷóˀotš díˀʸheʰ di-ḥaḷf wa-ḳeróˁoʰ šḫoṭ wa-tóˀo ḳeróˁoʰ šéḷṭeʰ ŝiyáṭ wa-ho mes ḷe-dέfɛ tóˀo éḳdomk ŝiyáṭ ṣerk tos di-tɛr ‘I brought some petrol from Hadibo in a tank, but I forgot to tell my family that it was petrol. In the evening my wife poured some petrol from the tank into an oil lamp, and put the tank back in its place. Then she lit a match. As soon as she lit the match, a fire blazed up. I was nearby, and as soon as I saw the fire, I threw it outside’ (CSOL I 18:4)
other notes
Borrowed from Arabic.
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