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naab

Kasem · Bulsa (Buli) / Upper East — not Kasem; cf. Gurune naba · Royal Title

In Buli, naab is two different nouns: (1) 'chief, king' (pl. naliman) and (2) 'cow, bull' (pl. niingan). It appears in titles such as Sandemnaab, the chief of Sandema. The related Gurune word is naba, 'chief'. It is not a Kasem term.

The title Sandemnaab combines Sandem(a) with naab, 'chief'.

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