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Buki

Hausa · Hausa / Northern Nigeria; Niger; zongo communities in Ghana · Ceremony

A feast or festivity, especially a marriage feast. Robinson glosses buki/biki (compared with Fulfulde) as 'marriage feast', with yin buki 'to make a feast'; a separate homonym buki means 'pride, luxury'.

The family prepared a buki for the wedding guests.

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