Entry:
màanu
Glosses:
hey people; listen up
Example:
Ɛ! Maanu! Ja kɛra, sumanw ma ɲɛ
‘Jeez! People! We’ve had a drought and the crops have failed.’
Notes:
The expression màanu is an interjection that comes from màa + lu (person + PLURAL; màa is a typically Ségou form of Bambara equivalent to mɔ̀gɔ) and means something like “People!” as in the sense of “Listen up / Hear me, I’ve got something to say”.
It is often preceded by an exclamation like Ee! or Ɛ!
It appears in Bamadaba