A magical material in Australian Aboriginal mythology, from which the shamans and elders derive their powers; it is often in the form of stones, and may be associated with quartz crystals, mother-of-pearl, etc.

A Western Nilotic language of Sudan.

Of or relating to a small language family of languages spoken in eastern Chad, the Central African Republic, and western Sudan (Darfur).

Alternative form of maban (“magical material in Australian Aboriginal mythology”)