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What's The English Name For This Lamp by kingar(op): 10:05pm On Mar 19, 2015

Saw this with a neighbour and wish to know its English given name. Its called Afum anime in Ibibio language.
Share with us the english name and its native name in your dialect.

Re: What's The English Name For This Lamp by Nobody: 10:07pm On Mar 19, 2015

Lamp.

Re: What's The English Name For This Lamp by mkpakanaodogwu(m): 10:10pm On Mar 19, 2015

Oil lamp,mpanaka

Re: What's The English Name For This Lamp by dkronicle(m): 10:13pm On Mar 19, 2015

When i was 6, my mom's fnd makes use of it while sellin her orange. She will yell @her daughter, china go bring that mpanaka.

Re: What's The English Name For This Lamp by EverestdeBliu(m): 10:20pm On Mar 19, 2015

dkronicle:
When i was 6, my mom's fnd makes use of it while sellin her orange. She will yell @her daughter, china go bring that mpanaka.

Manjala we call it
Wick lantern I guess,for English

Re: What's The English Name For This Lamp by kingar(op): 10:25pm On Mar 19, 2015

Its a regular orange selling lamp @ nite in Port Harcourt.

dkronicle:
When i was 6, my mom's fnd makes use of it while sellin her orange. She will yell @her daughter, china go bring that mpanaka.

Re: What's The English Name For This Lamp by dkronicle(m): 10:33pm On Mar 19, 2015

Manjaka get swags as a name o. One name for that weed seller.

EverestdeBliu:
Manjala we call it
Wick lantern I guess,for English

Re: What's The English Name For This Lamp by EverestdeBliu(m): 10:40pm On Mar 19, 2015

dkronicle:
Manjaka get swags as a name o. One name for that weed seller.

I said 'Manjala',I don't know whatever 'manjaka' u're talking about

Re: What's The English Name For This Lamp by kristen12(f): 11:30pm On Mar 19, 2015

Yoruba- Atupa
English- dunno

Re: What's The English Name For This Lamp by bigfrancis21(mod): 12:51am On Mar 20, 2015

Igbo: Mpanaka! grin

English translation: carried in the hand! grin

Re: What's The English Name For This Lamp by slimyem: 1:46am On Mar 20, 2015

My people call it SHAKABULA.. cheesy

Re: What's The English Name For This Lamp by bigfrancis21(mod): 8:37am On Mar 20, 2015

slimyem:
My people call it SHAKABULA..

Sounds like speaking in tongues! grin

Re: What's The English Name For This Lamp by thoth: 11:34am On Dec 23, 2015

was looking for the English name as well.

Re: What's The English Name For This Lamp by scholes0(m): 4:18pm On Dec 23, 2015

Yoruba - Shakabula
English - Oil lamp?

Re: What's The English Name For This Lamp by scholes0(m): 4:18pm On Dec 23, 2015

kristen12:
Yoruba- Atupa
English- dunno

This is not Atupa
Atupa is Lantern, not this one.

Re: What's The English Name For This Lamp by 2prexios: 4:30pm On Dec 23, 2015

atupa sakabula

saka: strike

bula: kaboom.

old folks get sense.

Re: What's The English Name For This Lamp by oluseyiforjesus(m): 5:47pm On Dec 23, 2015

Wait let me ask granma

Re: What's The English Name For This Lamp by skywolf66(m): 9:11pm On Dec 23, 2015

Hausa==acibalbal pronounced achibalbal

Re: What's The English Name For This Lamp by NakedEve: 8:13am On Dec 26, 2015

Oil wick lamp.

Re: What's The English Name For This Lamp by 2prexios: 1:49pm On Dec 26, 2015

NakedEve:
Oil wick lamp.

LOL,
you are the only one that really answered the op.
brilliant.

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Re: What's The English Name For This Lamp by NakedEve: 2:02pm On Dec 26, 2015

2prexios:
LOL,

you are the only one that really answered the op.

brilliant.

Thanks.

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