A French-Mandingo dictionary published in 1891 translated diamba specifically as "tobacco for smoking", while sira meant tobacco in general.[1][2] The distinction belongs to a wider pattern: diamba cognates entered Manding languages — Maninkakan in Guinea and Bamanankan in Mali — where Europeans repeatedly recorded the cannabis word as "tobacco".[1] An 1859 vocabulary from itinerant traders in central Senegambia had already recorded diamba that way, in what was probably Mandinkakan.[1]
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References
- The African Roots of MarijuanaChris S. Duvall · Duke University Press · 2019 · ch. 7, printed p. 138 with notes 80–82 (pp. 291–292); 1891 Péroz dictionary distinction, Manding diamba cognates, 1859 Poisson vocabulary · ISBN 9781478004530
- Dictionaire Français-MandingueM. É. Péroz · Moderne–J. D. Maillard · 1891 · p. 86; diamba as tobacco for smoking vs sira (cited via Duvall 2019)
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