Core Glossary
Core Glossary
2 Peter 1–3 | Term-by-Term Translation Risk Reference
This glossary extends translation_memory.json for the 2 Peter curriculum. Terms marked [REUSED] carry a rendering already fixed by the Romans baseline and MUST be used exactly as recorded there — no deviation permitted regardless of the local risk noted here. Terms marked [NEW] are introduced by this analysis and require the mandatory theologian-and-native-speaker confirmation flag described in the baseline’s 12_ai_translation_requirements.md before Phase 2 begins. All risk tiers follow the baseline’s four-tier definitions exactly.
| English Term | Fulfulde Rendering | Transliteration | Risk | Status | Doctrine Category | Chapters | Risk Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| God | Alla | Alla | Critical | REUSED | Deity of Christ / General | 1,2,3 | Shared with Islamic usage; must be presented in explicitly Trinitarian, Christ-centered terms per baseline. |
| Jesus | Yeesu | Yeesu | Critical | REUSED | Christology | 1,2,3 | Never the Quranic form Iisa in doctrinal exposition. |
| Christ (name element) | Kiristu | Kiristu | High | REUSED | Christology | 1,2,3 | Use for the name “Jesus Christ” (Yeesu Kiristu); distinct from the doctrinal title Almasiihu (Messiah), which carries its own Critical flag when the Messianic office itself is in view. |
| Messiah (title/doctrine) | Almasiihu | Almasiihu | Critical | REUSED | Messianic Promise | 1,3 | Shared with Quranic al-Masih; shared word, not shared belief — content must be taught explicitly. |
| Lord | Joom | Joom | Critical | REUSED | Lordship of Christ | 1,2,3 | Never default to Laamiiɗo (Caliphate-resonant “ruler”); extremely high frequency in 2 Peter — consistency essential. |
| Father | Baaba | Baaba | High | REUSED | God the Father | 1 | God’s personal Fatherhood at the Transfiguration (1:17). |
| Son of God / beloved Son | Ɓiɗɗo Alla / Ɓiɗɗo am, mo mi yiɗi | Ɓiɗɗo Alla | Critical | REUSED | Sonship of Christ | 1 | The Father’s own voice (1:17) affirming unique Sonship — the passage’s strongest anti-shirk flashpoint; never soften to “a great messenger.” |
| Holy Spirit | Ruuhu Ceniiɗo | Ruuhu Ceniiɗo | Critical | REUSED | Inspiration of Scripture | 1 | Always in full; never ruuhu alone or jinna. |
| Holy | ceniiɗo | ceniiɗo | Medium | REUSED | Sanctification | 1,2 | Moral/relational set-apartness, distinct from ritual purity. |
| Grace | Arjunde | arjunde | Critical | REUSED | Grace | 1,3 | Never barke; “apart from works” contrast must be explicit, especially at 3:18’s closing doxology. |
| Faith | gomɗinal | gomɗinal | High | REUSED | Faith | 1 | Object of faith (Christ specifically) must be recoverable from context. |
| Righteousness | peewal | peewal | Critical | REUSED | Salvation / Deity of Christ | 1,2,3 | Underlies the Critical 1:1 “righteousness of our God and Savior” construction. |
| Salvation | kisal | kisal | Critical | REUSED | Salvation | (root of new term below) | Root for the new Savior term; never let aljanna substitute. |
| Savior | kisanoowo | kisanoowo | Critical | NEW | Salvation / Deity of Christ | 1,3 | ”One who saves”; appears in the repeated “God and Savior Jesus Christ” formula (1:1, 1:11, 2:20, 3:2, 3:18) — a direct grammatical assertion of Christ’s deity; must render so the single-referent reading (God = Savior = Jesus Christ) is unambiguous. |
| Apostle | nulaaɗo | nulaaɗo | High | REUSED | Apostleship | 1 | Never rasuulu (Muhammad’s title). |
| Election | suɓagol | suɓagol | High | REUSED | Effectual Calling | 1 | ”Make your calling and election sure” (1:10); never unqualified natal. |
| Calling / Called | noddaandi / noddaaɗo | noddaandi / noddaaɗo | High/Medium | REUSED | Divine Calling | 1 | Context-sensitive per baseline pattern. |
| Kingdom of God (eternal kingdom) | laamu Alla / laamu duumiiɗo | laamu Alla | Medium | REUSED+extended | Kingdom Mission | 1 | Distinguish from historic/political Islamic state structures (Sokoto Caliphate memory). |
| Prophet / Prophecy | annabi / annabaawo | annabi / annabaawo | Medium/High | REUSED | Inspiration of Scripture; Fulfillment of Prophecy | 1,3 | Central vocabulary of the core passage (1:19-21). |
| Scripture | Deftere Senaande | Deftere Senaande | High | NEW | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 1,3 | Directly intersects the tahrif doctrine (Quranic claim that earlier scriptures were corrupted); reconfirm against the specific regional NT translation’s existing term. |
| Sin | bakkaatu | bakkaatu | High | REUSED | Universal Human Accountability | 1,2 | Weight of moral guilt before a personal God must be stated explicitly. |
| Divine power | doole Alla | doole Alla | Medium-High | REUSED+extended | Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption | 1 | Grounds the “divine nature” doctrine; never barke. |
| Divine nature | jikku Alla | jikku Alla | Critical | NEW | Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption | 1 | ”Partakers of the divine nature” (1:4) is the single highest anti-shirk-risk phrase in 2 Peter; must be taught as moral/relational participation in God’s holiness via Christ and the Spirit, never as ontological identity with God. Mandatory theologian review every occurrence. |
| Corruption | bonande | bonande | High | NEW | Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption | 1,2 | Moral-spiritual ruin from which believers escape by grace; not fatalistic natural decay. |
| Lust / desire | tuiindi | tuiindi | Medium | NEW | Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption; False Teachers | 1,2,3 | Illicit desire; distinguish from neutral human desire generally. |
| Knowledge / full knowledge | anndal / anndal timmuɗo | anndal / anndal timmuɗo | High | NEW | Growing in Christian Virtue | 1,2,3 | 2 Peter’s central repeated theme-term; must be distinguished from Islamic ʿilm (scholarly knowledge) and Sufi maʿrifa (mystical gnosis) — this is relational, grace-given knowledge of Christ specifically. |
| Virtue / excellence | moƴƴere | moƴƴere | Medium | NEW | Growing in Christian Virtue | 1 | Teddungal (Pulaaku honor) considered and rejected as primary term to avoid conflating grace-given moral excellence with socially-conferred human honor. |
| Self-control | hertinde hoore-mun | hertinde hoore-mun | Medium | NEW | Growing in Christian Virtue | 1 | Provisional descriptive compound; confirm regional naturalness. |
| Steadfastness / patient endurance | munyal | munyal | High | NEW | Growing in Christian Virtue; Patience of God’s Timing | 1,3 | Direct reuse of Pulaaku’s core virtue term for both human hypomonē (1:6) and divine makrothymia (3:9,15); must be explicitly Christ-hope-grounded, not equated with autonomous Pulaaku stoic endurance. |
| Godliness | hulde Alla | hulde Alla | High | NEW | Growing in Christian Virtue | 1,3 | Parallels Islamic taqwa; must be taught as grace-produced fruit, not merit-earning piety. |
| Brotherly affection | giggol musidal | giggol musidal | Low-Medium | NEW | Growing in Christian Virtue | 1 | Positive resonance with Fulani kinship values. |
| Love | yiɗde | yiɗde | Medium | NEW | Growing in Christian Virtue | 1 | Self-giving NT sense; not narrowed to romantic or kin-bound affection only. |
| Promise | fodoore | fodoore | Medium | NEW | Certainty of Christ’s Return | 1,3 | ”Precious and very great promises” (1:4); also underlies the scoffers’ challenge “Where is the promise…?” (3:4). |
| Eyewitness | seedaaɓe nii’ɓe | seedaaɓe nii’ɓe | High | NEW | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 1 | Grounds apostolic testimony historically, against “cleverly devised myths.” |
| Cleverly devised myths | daaɗe fefindaaɗe no feewi | — | High | NEW | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 1 | Directly rebuts skeptical/legend framings of the gospel account. |
| Majesty | manaango mawɗo | manaango mawɗo | Medium | NEW | Certainty of Christ’s Return | 1 | Reuses baseline manaango (glory), intensified. |
| Holy mountain | fello ceniiɗo | fello ceniiɗo | Medium | NEW | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 1 | Confirm no unwanted overlap with local sacred-site traditional-religion associations. |
| Private/own interpretation | firo hoore-mun | firo hoore-mun | Medium | NEW | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 1 | About the origin of prophecy, not authorized tafsir-style interpretation of an existing text. |
| Carried along by the Spirit | ɓe Ruuhu Ceniiɗo ɓorii | — | High | NEW | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 1 | Nautical metaphor for inspiration’s mechanism; provisional, mandatory dual review. |
| Cleansing (from sin) | laaɓal bakkaatu | laaɓal bakkaatu | High | NEW | Growing in Christian Virtue | 1 | Risk of collision with laaɓal’s ritual-ablution (wuduu) association per baseline; this is a definitive past conversion-cleansing, not ongoing ritual. |
| Servant/slave (self-designation) | jiyaaɗo | jiyaaɗo | Medium | NEW | Apostleship / General | 1 | Bridges with Islamic naming convention (“Abdallah”) but must retain voluntary, relational, Christ-specific bond-service sense. |
| False teachers | jannginooɓe fenaande | jannginooɓe fenaande | Critical | NEW | False Teachers and Their Judgment | 2 | Central curriculum doctrine; frame as concern for doctrinal fidelity to apostolic gospel, not a blanket dismissal of religious teachers generally, given the high status of Islamic scholarly teachers regionally. |
| Destructive heresies | jannginooji bonɗi / halkooji | — | High | NEW | False Teachers and Their Judgment | 2 | Fitna (Arabic, “discord/heresy”) rejected — carries unwanted political-strife connotations regionally. |
| Master (despotēs) | Joom | Joom | High | NEW (shared rendering) | Lordship of Christ | 2 | Shares rendering with kyrios/Joom; ownership-by-purchase nuance must be taught even though lexical form is shared. |
| Destruction | halkaare | halkaare | High | NEW | False Teachers; Day of the Lord | 2,3 | Feeds into the Critical final-judgment doctrine of ch. 3. |
| Judgment / condemnation | ñaawoore | ñaawoore | Medium | NEW | Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | 2,3 | Root for “day of judgment” below. |
| Day of judgment | Ñalowma ñaawoore | Ñalowma ñaawoore | High | NEW | Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | 2,3 | Central curriculum doctrine term. |
| Day of the Lord | Ñalowma Joom | Ñalowma Joom | Critical | NEW | Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | 3 | Must be distinguished plainly from an Islamic Yawm al-Qiyāma schema featuring ʿIsa’s return as vindicator of Sharia; state the Christ-centered, atonement-grounded content explicitly. |
| Angels (who sinned) | malaa’ika (bakkondiiɓe) | malaa’ika | Medium | NEW (shared root) | False Teachers and Their Judgment | 2 | Shared Arabic-derived vocabulary with Islamic usage — genuine point of contact for the existence of angels; specific fate/place (“Tartarus”) handled descriptively, not via any borrowed Islamic place-term. |
| Flood / Noah | ndiyam mawɗi / Nuuha | Nuuha | Medium | NEW (shared name) | False Teachers and Their Judgment | 2,3 | Shared narrative with Quranic Nuh account; theological function (judgment/rescue paradigm) must be taught explicitly, not assumed identical. |
| Sodom and Gomorrah | Sodoma e Gomora | Sodoma e Gomora | Medium | NEW (shared names) | False Teachers and Their Judgment | 2 | Cf. Quranic account of the people of Lut; shared referent, note narrative-emphasis differences. |
| Ungodly | ŋakkuɓe Alla | — | High | NEW | False Teachers and Their Judgment; Day of the Lord | 2,3 | Preferred over “diina bonɗo” to avoid implying a claim about a rival religious community rather than ungodliness of life. |
| Lawless | ŋakkuɗo sariya | ŋakkuɗo sariya | Medium | NEW (reused root) | False Teachers and Their Judgment | 2 | Reuses baseline sariya (law) root. |
| Authority / dominion (kyriotēs) | laamu / joomiraagal | — | Medium | NEW | False Teachers and Their Judgment | 2 | Distinct from Joom itself; refers to a class/office of authority. |
| Freedom | dimaagu | dimaagu | Medium | NEW | False Teachers and Their Judgment | 2 | Paired ironically with “slaves of corruption” — irony must be preserved. |
| Way of righteousness | laawol peewal | laawol peewal | Medium | NEW (reused root) | False Teachers and Their Judgment | 2 | Reuses baseline peewal. |
| Scoffers | jalkitooɓe | jalkitooɓe | High | NEW | Certainty of Christ’s Return | 3 | Those who specifically mock the promise of Christ’s return. |
| Coming / Parousia | artaare Almasiihu / arwa Yeesu Kiristu | — | Critical | NEW | Certainty of Christ’s Return | 1,3 | No crystallized single term exists; directly intersects the distinct Islamic eschatological doctrine of ʿIsa’s own future return with radically different content — must be explicitly taught, never assumed shared. Must render identically at 1:16 and 3:4 per cross-document consistency rule. |
| Patience (of God) | munyal Alla / muñal | munyal | High | NEW (reused root) | Patience of God’s Timing | 3 | See steadfastness above; must be taught as purposive, repentance-aimed forbearance, not fatalistic delay (contrast with al-qadar-style fatalism). |
| Repentance | tuubuubuyee | tuubuubuyee | Critical | NEW | Patience of God’s Timing; Day of the Lord | 3 | Shares root with Islamic tawba; genuine shared vocabulary but must be grounded explicitly in Christ’s finished work, not a deeds-and-mercy-weighing framework. |
| New heavens and new earth | kammu kesa e leydi hesere | — | Medium | NEW | Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | 3 | Must be distinguished from an aljanna-style individual-reward-garden framework; this is cosmic renewal where God’s righteousness (peewal) reigns. |
| Elements (stoicheia) | geɗe winndere | — | Low-Medium | NEW | Day of the Lord and Final Judgment | 3 | Descriptive; low ambiguity risk. |
| Wisdom | hikima | hikima | Medium | NEW (shared vocabulary) | Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture | 3 | Shared with Islamic hikmah; useful bridge term if not narrowed to legal-scholarly sense alone. |
| Holy commandment | yamiroore ceniinde | — | Medium | NEW (reused root) | Growing in Christian Virtue | 2 | Reuses baseline ceniiɗo root. |
Doctrine-to-Term Cross-Reference (Curriculum’s Seven Doctrines)
- The Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture — Deftere Senaande, annabaawo, seedaaɓe nii’ɓe, firo hoore-mun, ɓe Ruuhu Ceniiɗo ɓorii, daaɗe fefindaaɗe no feewi, fello ceniiɗo, hikima
- Growing in Christian Virtue — anndal/anndal timmuɗo, moƴƴere, hertinde hoore-mun, munyal, hulde Alla, giggol musidal, yiɗde, laaɓal bakkaatu, yamiroore ceniinde
- False Teachers and Their Judgment — jannginooɓe fenaande, jannginooji bonɗi, halkaare, ñaawoore, ŋakkuɓe Alla, ŋakkuɗo sariya, malaa’ika, Nuuha, Sodoma e Gomora, dimaagu, laawol peewal
- The Certainty of Christ’s Return — artaare Almasiihu/arwa Yeesu Kiristu, fodoore, jalkitooɓe, manaango mawɗo
- The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment — Ñalowma Joom, Ñalowma ñaawoore, kammu kesa e leydi hesere, geɗe winndere, halkaare
- Patience of God’s Timing — munyal Alla, tuubuubuyee, fodoore
- Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption — jikku Alla, doole Alla, bonande, tuiindi, kisanoowo
Mandatory Dual-Review Flag List (New Provisional Terms)
The following are unattested/newly coined for Fulfulde and require BOTH native-speaker AND theologian confirmation before Phase 2 deployment, per baseline escalation rules: kisanoowo, jikku Alla, artaare Almasiihu/arwa Yeesu Kiristu, ɓe Ruuhu Ceniiɗo ɓorii, jannginooɓe fenaande, hulde Alla, anndal timmuɗo, laaɓal bakkaatu, tuubuubuyee (2 Peter usage), Ñalowma Joom, seedaaɓe nii’ɓe.
Critical Risk Terms
God
Approved rendering: Alla
Transliteration: Alla
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Original: θεός
Category: God
Alla (from Arabic Allah) is the universal term for God across both Muslim and Christian Fulfulde speakers, with no viable alternative and no competing polytheistic default sense. This shared vocabulary is a genuine point of contact, but this curriculum must consistently present Alla, per Romans, in explicitly Trinitarian and Christ-centered terms that go beyond, and are not automatically assumed by, standard regional Islamic usage of the same word. In 2 Peter, Alla appears in the repeated ‘God and Savior Jesus Christ’ formula (1:1, 1:11, 2:20, 3:2, 3:18), a single-referent Granville-Sharp construction asserting Christ’s deity; Alla must never be read as excluding or standing apart from Christ’s own deity in that construction. Inherited from Romans package.
Jesus
Approved rendering: Yeesu
Transliteration: Yeesu
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Iisa (the Quranic Arabic form, reserve only for explicit interfaith-dialogue contexts)
Original: Ἰησοῦς
Category: Christology
Yeesu is used in existing Fulfulde/Pular Christian Bible translation work. Extremely high-frequency in 2 Peter’s repeated closing formula ‘our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ’ (1:1, 1:11, 2:20, 3:2, 3:18) and in the parousia doctrine of 1:16 and 3:4. Iisa must never be used in doctrinal exposition. Inherited from Romans package.
Lord
Approved rendering: Joom
Transliteration: Joom
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: Laamiiɗo (reserve for ‘ruler/king’ in political contexts, avoid as the primary term for divine Lordship to prevent conflation with historic Caliphate rulership)
Original: κύριος
Category: Christology
Occurs at extremely high frequency throughout 2 Peter (1:2, 1:8, 1:11, 1:14, 1:16, 2:1 as despotēs, 2:9, 2:11, 2:20, 3:2, 3:8-10, 3:15, 3:18); consistency across every occurrence is essential. Also shares its rendering with δεσπότης (despotēs, 2:1, ‘the Master who bought them’) — see master_despotes entry. Inherited from Romans package.
Son Of God
Approved rendering: Ɓiɗɗo Alla
Transliteration: Ɓiɗɗo Alla
Doctrine: Sonship of Christ
Rejected alternatives: nulaaɗo mawɗo (a great messenger, an explicit downgrade and rejected)
Original: ὁ Υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητός
Category: Christology
2 Peter 1:17’s Father’s voice (‘This is my Son, my beloved,’ mo mi yiɗi) is the passage’s strongest attestation of unique, eternal Sonship, the doctrine most sharply contested by Fulani Islamic scholarly tradition (Quran 112). Never soften to ‘a great and favored messenger.’ Inherited from Romans package.
Holy Spirit
Approved rendering: Ruuhu Ceniiɗo
Transliteration: Ruuhu Ceniiɗo
Doctrine: Sanctification / Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: ruuhu (never use alone), jinna (never use; a jinn/spirit being in Islamic and West African folk belief)
Original: πνεῦμα ἅγιον
Category: God
The agent of scriptural inspiration in 2 Peter 1:21 (‘men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit’), 2 Peter’s key statement against tahrif-style claims of textual corruption or merely human authorship. Always used in full. Inherited from Romans package.
Grace
Approved rendering: Arjunde
Transliteration: arjunde
Doctrine: Grace
Rejected alternatives: yurmeende (reserve for ‘mercy/compassion’ generally), barke (blessing, avoid as a substitute)
Original: χάρις
Category: Salvation
CRITICAL: closes 2 Peter at 3:18 (‘grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ’) — the ‘apart from works’ contrast must remain explicit at this closing doxology, rendered identically to its other 2 Peter occurrence at 1:2. Never barke. Inherited from Romans package.
Righteousness
Approved rendering: peewal
Transliteration: peewal
Doctrine: Salvation / Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: nunɗal (fairness/justice, too civic)
Original: δικαιοσύνη
Category: Salvation
Underlies the Critical 2 Peter 1:1 ‘righteousness of our God and Savior’ construction, a direct grammatical assertion of Christ’s deity; also used of Lot’s righteousness (2:7-8), the way of righteousness (2:21), and the new-creation hope ‘in which righteousness dwells’ (3:13). Inherited from Romans package.
Salvation
Approved rendering: kisal
Transliteration: kisal
Doctrine: Salvation
Rejected alternatives: dancal (protection, never as a stand-alone substitute), aljanna (paradise, never as a stand-alone gloss for salvation itself)
Original: σωτηρία (root; cf. σωτήρ)
Category: Salvation
Root of the new 2 Peter term kisanoowo (‘Savior’). Never let aljanna substitute for the concept itself. Inherited from Romans package.
Messiah
Approved rendering: Almasiihu
Transliteration: Almasiihu
Doctrine: Messianic Promise
Original: Χριστός / מָשִׁיחַ
Category: Christology
Shared with Quranic al-Masih; shared word, not shared belief. Inherited from Romans package.
Savior
Approved rendering: kisanoowo
Transliteration: kisanoowo
Doctrine: Deity of Christ (the ‘God and Savior’ formula)
Rejected alternatives: a two-word paraphrase risking a split-referent reading, an Arabic-derived loan title, rejected to avoid unrelated connotations
Original: σωτήρ
Category: Salvation
Derived from the kisal (‘salvation’) root: ‘one who saves.’ Appears in the repeated Granville-Sharp-type construction ‘our God and Savior Jesus Christ’ (1:1, 1:11, 2:20, 3:2, 3:18), a direct grammatical assertion of Christ’s deity comparable in weight to Romans 9:5. The Fulfulde rendering ‘Alla men e Kisanoowo Yeesu Kiristu’ must preserve the single-referent reading at every occurrence; a two-referent parse would align with an Islamic reading distinguishing Allah from a merely human ‘Isa. Newly coined; mandatory theologian review at every occurrence; render identically all five times.
Divine Nature
Approved rendering: jikku Alla
Transliteration: jikku Alla
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Rejected alternatives: a bare possessive ‘nature of God’ with no explanatory clause, rejected as too easily read as ontological identity/shirk, an Arabic philosophical-theological loanword, rejected as risking import of Islamic kalam categories
Original: θείας φύσεως κοινωνοί
Category: Christology
‘Partakers of the divine nature’ (1:4) is the single highest anti-shirk-risk phrase in this curriculum. Fulani Islamic scholarship, rooted in the Sokoto Caliphate’s strict Tawhid/anti-shirk reform tradition, holds an absolute, unbridgeable Creator-creature distinction; without direct explanatory teaching this phrase will almost certainly be heard as blasphemous shirk. Must always be taught as moral/relational participation in God’s holiness and eternal life through union with Christ and the Spirit, never as ontological identity or fusion with God’s essence. Mandatory theologian review at EVERY occurrence, with an obligatory same-passage clarifying clause, never an optional footnote.
False Teachers
Approved rendering: jannginooɓe fenaande
Transliteration: jannginooɓe fenaande
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: ψευδοδιδάσκαλοι
Category: False Teaching
Central to this curriculum’s named doctrine (2:1-3, 2:12-22). Must be framed as concern for doctrinal fidelity to the apostolic gospel anchored in 1:16-21’s eyewitness/Spirit-inspired testimony, not a blanket dismissal of religious teachers or scholars generally, given the high social status of Islamic scholarly teachers (marabouts, Quranic teachers) in Fulani communities. Mandatory theologian review.
Day Of The Lord
Approved rendering: Ñalowma Joom
Transliteration: Ñalowma Joom
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Rejected alternatives: an unqualified borrowing adjacent to Yawm al-Qiyāma vocabulary, rejected as inviting default assimilation to the Islamic schema
Original: ἡμέρα Κυρίου
Category: Eschatology
The Lord’s future day of cosmic judgment and renewal, coming ‘like a thief’ (3:10). Must be distinguished plainly, at every occurrence, from the Islamic Yawm al-Qiyāma (Day of Resurrection/Judgment) framework, in which ‘Isa returns as a Muslim prophet to defeat al-Masih ad-Dajjal, affirm Islam, and vindicate Sharia. This curriculum must state the specifically Christ-centered, atonement-grounded content of this day explicitly. Mandatory theologian review at every occurrence.
Parousia Coming
Approved rendering: artaare Almasiihu / arwa Yeesu Kiristu
Transliteration: artaare Almasiihu / arwa Yeesu Kiristu
Doctrine: The Certainty of Christ’s Return
Rejected alternatives: a transliterated Greek loanword (‘parousia’), rejected as opaque to readers and forfeiting the chance to build the phrase around the already-established name Yeesu Kiristu
Original: παρουσία
Category: Eschatology
Christ’s future, visible, bodily return (1:16; 3:4). No crystallized single Fulfulde term exists. Directly intersects the distinct, well-developed Islamic eschatological doctrine of ‘Isa’s own future return (to defeat al-Masih ad-Dajjal, affirm Islam, and vindicate Sharia) — a second major Christological flashpoint beyond Tawhid/shirk objections to the incarnation and sonship. Must be explicitly taught with a contrastive gloss at every occurrence, never assumed shared merely because both traditions expect Yeesu/‘Isa’s return. Must render identically at 1:16 and 3:4. Mandatory theologian review at every occurrence.
Repentance
Approved rendering: tuubuubuyee
Transliteration: tuubuubuyee
Doctrine: Patience of God’s Timing / Salvation
Original: μετάνοια
Category: Salvation
A change of mind/heart turning from sin to God, God’s purpose in delaying judgment (3:9). Shares its root with Islamic tawba — genuine shared vocabulary — but Islamic tawba operates within a deeds-and-mercy-weighing framework without substitutionary atonement. This curriculum must state repentance’s efficacy as grounded explicitly in Christ’s finished atoning work, the same caution baseline mandates for grace and salvation. Mandatory theologian review.
High Risk Terms
Father
Approved rendering: Baaba
Transliteration: Baaba
Doctrine: Adoption into God’s Family / Sonship of Christ
Original: πατήρ
Category: God
In 2 Peter 1:17 the Father’s own voice at the Transfiguration bestows honor (teddungal, used carefully here of divine bestowal, not Pulaaku human honor) and glory (manaango) on the Son. Inherited from Romans package.
Faith
Approved rendering: gomɗinal
Transliteration: gomɗinal
Doctrine: Faith
Rejected alternatives: hoolaare (trust, acceptable as a supporting synonym)
Original: πίστις
Category: Faith
2 Peter 1:1’s ‘those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours’ and the virtue chain of 1:5 both require the object of faith (Christ specifically) to remain explicit from context. Inherited from Romans package.
Apostle
Approved rendering: nulaaɗo
Transliteration: nulaaɗo
Doctrine: Apostleship
Rejected alternatives: rasuulu (never use; the Arabic-derived title reserved in Islamic usage for Muhammad as ‘the Messenger’)
Original: ἀπόστολος
Category: Church
Peter’s self-designation alongside ‘servant’ (jiyaaɗo) in 2 Peter 1:1. Never rasuulu. Inherited from Romans package.
Election
Approved rendering: suɓagol
Transliteration: suɓagol
Doctrine: Effectual Calling
Rejected alternatives: natal (fate/lot, use with caution)
Original: ἐκλογή
Category: Salvation
2 Peter 1:10’s ‘make your calling and election sure’ must reuse suɓagol exactly; never let natal substitute unqualified. Inherited from Romans package.
Calling
Approved rendering: noddaandi
Transliteration: noddaandi
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Original: κλῆσις
Category: Salvation
Paired with election in 2 Peter 1:10. Inherited from Romans package.
Sin
Approved rendering: bakkaatu
Transliteration: bakkaatu
Doctrine: Universal Human Accountability
Rejected alternatives: fenaande (mistake/lie, too weak)
Original: ἁμαρτία
Category: Sin
Used throughout 2 Peter (1:9; ch. 2 passim). Inherited from Romans package.
Power Of God
Approved rendering: doole Alla
Transliteration: doole Alla
Doctrine: Power of God for Salvation / Divine Nature
Rejected alternatives: barke (marabout-associated spiritual power/blessing, never use)
Original: θεία δύναμις / δύναμις
Category: God
Grounds the new divine_nature doctrine in 2 Peter 1:3-4 (‘his divine power has granted us all things that pertain to life and godliness’); never barke. Inherited from Romans package.
Sanctification
Approved rendering: ceniinde
Transliteration: ceniinde
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: laaɓal (ritual/ceremonial purification, avoid as a substitute)
Must be kept distinct from 2 Peter’s new term laaɓal bakkaatu (definitive conversion-cleansing, 1:9), which itself must be distinguished from Islamic ritual ablution (wuduu). Inherited from Romans package.
Christ
Approved rendering: Kiristu
Transliteration: Kiristu
Doctrine: Christology
Original: Χριστός
Category: Christology
New registry entry for this curriculum, though the transliteration itself was already fixed by the Romans baseline’s AI requirements doc (‘Christ = Kiristu’) as the name-element paired with Yeesu. Distinct from the doctrinal title Almasiihu (Messiah) when the Messianic office itself is asserted. Extremely high frequency throughout 2 Peter’s repeated ‘Lord and Savior Jesus Christ’ formula.
Corruption
Approved rendering: bonande
Transliteration: bonande
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption
Rejected alternatives: a term limited to mere physical decay/aging, rejected as too weak
Original: φθορά
Category: Sanctification
Moral-spiritual ruin from which believers escape by grace (1:4), and to which false teachers are enslaved (2:12, 2:19). Must not be read as a fatalistic natural process to be passively accepted.
Knowledge
Approved rendering: anndal / anndal timmuɗo
Transliteration: anndal / anndal timmuɗo
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue / Saving Knowledge of Christ
Rejected alternatives: framing primarily via Islamic ʿilm (scholarly/legal religious knowledge), framing primarily via Sufi maʿrifa (mystical, often marabout-mediated gnosis)
Original: ἐπίγνωσις / γνῶσις
Category: Faith
2 Peter’s central repeated theme-word (1:2, 1:3, 1:8; γνῶσις at 1:5-6, 3:18). anndal = general knowledge (γνῶσις); anndal timmuɗo = full/complete knowledge (ἐπίγνωσις). Must be taught explicitly as relational, grace-given knowledge of the specific person of Christ, not scholarly attainment or mystical achievement. Mandatory theologian review, especially at the closing doxology 3:18.
Steadfastness Endurance
Approved rendering: munyal
Transliteration: munyal
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue; Patience of God’s Timing
Original: ὑπομονή / μακροθυμία
Category: Sanctification
Direct reuse of Pulaaku’s core virtue term (one of Pulaaku’s four pillars alongside semteende, hakkille, teddungal) for both human ὑπομονή (1:6) and God’s own μακροθυμία (3:9, 3:15). Must be explicitly taught as endurance/forbearance rooted in confident hope of Christ’s certain return and God’s purposive, repentance-aimed mercy, not autonomous human toughness valued for its own Pulaaku honor, nor Islamic-fatalist delay (al-qadar). Mandatory theologian review.
Godliness
Approved rendering: hulde Alla
Transliteration: hulde Alla
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: εὐσέβεια
Category: Sanctification
Closely parallels the Islamic virtue of taqwa (God-consciousness cultivated through Sharia observance). Must be taught as grace-produced fruit of Spirit-given knowledge of Christ (1:3), never as self-generated, merit-earning piety achieved through religious observance.
Eyewitness
Approved rendering: seedaaɓe nii’ɓe
Transliteration: seedaaɓe nii’ɓe
Doctrine: The Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: a generic ‘we saw’ (yi’ii), rejected as flattening the forensic/legal-testimonial force
Original: ἐπόπτης
Category: Scripture
Grounds apostolic testimony historically at the Transfiguration (1:16, 1:18), against ‘cleverly devised myths.’ Parallels the baseline’s flagged Quran 4:157 collision over the crucifixion’s historicity; must be stated with equal directness and confidence.
Cleverly Devised Myths
Approved rendering: daaɗe fefindaaɗe no feewi
Transliteration: daaɗe fefindaaɗe no feewi
Doctrine: The Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Original: σεσοφισμένοι μῦθοι
Category: Scripture
Directly rebuts skeptical/legend framings of the gospel accounts (1:16). Must retain the apologetic force of denial, not be softened into a vague disclaimer.
Carried By The Spirit
Approved rendering: ɓe Ruuhu Ceniiɗo ɓorii
Transliteration: ɓe Ruuhu Ceniiɗo ɓorii
Doctrine: The Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Rejected alternatives: a bare literal compound with no explanatory apposition, rejected as risking a possession/trance reading uncomfortably close to jinna categories
Original: ὑπὸ Πνεύματος Ἁγίου φερόμενοι
Category: Scripture
The mechanism of scriptural inspiration (1:21): prophets carried/borne along by the Spirit’s agency, preserving both divine origin and genuine human speech. No single crystallized Fulfulde theological verb exists for this nautical metaphor; every occurrence should carry an explanatory apposition (e.g., ‘wa mo henndu ɓorata laana,’ ‘as wind drives a boat’) so the mechanism reads as guided agency, not possession. Ruuhu Ceniiɗo must never be shortened. Mandatory dual (theologian and native-speaker) review.
Cleansing
Approved rendering: laaɓal bakkaatu
Transliteration: laaɓal bakkaatu
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue / Sanctification
Original: καθαρισμός
Category: Sanctification
Definitive, past, Spirit-wrought cleansing from former sins at conversion (1:9). Direct collision risk with laaɓal’s strong Islamic ritual-ablution (wuduu) association; this is a one-time conversion-cleansing, not an ongoing ritual practice, and this distinction must be made explicit.
Destructive Heresies
Approved rendering: jannginooji bonɗi
Transliteration: jannginooji bonɗi
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Rejected alternatives: fitna (Arabic, ‘discord/heresy/sedition’), rejected because it carries heavy, specific connotations of political/communal strife in regional Islamic usage
Original: αἱρέσεις ἀπωλείας
Category: False Teaching
Ruinous, destructive false teachings secretly introduced by false teachers (2:1).
Master Despotes
Approved rendering: Joom
Transliteration: Joom
Doctrine: Lordship of Christ
Original: δεσπότης
Category: Christology
δεσπότης (‘the Master who bought them,’ 2:1) carries a stronger ownership-emphasis than κύριος, but Fulfulde lacks a distinct native term preserving this nuance without additional risk, so the rendering is shared with Joom (kyrios). The ownership-by-purchase nuance (Christ’s atonement, not merely rulership) must be taught explicitly even though the lexical form is identical to ‘Lord.‘
Destruction
Approved rendering: halkaare
Transliteration: halkaare
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment; The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Original: ἀπώλεια
Category: Judgment
Ruin/destruction awaiting false teachers and the ungodly (2:1, 2:3), feeding into the Critical Day-of-the-Lord doctrine of chapter 3. Use this root consistently at 2:1, 2:3, 3:7, 3:10, and 3:16, preserving the letter’s own intentional thematic repetition.
Day Of Judgment
Approved rendering: Ñalowma ñaawoore
Transliteration: Ñalowma ñaawoore
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Original: ἡμέρα κρίσεως
Category: Judgment
The day on which the unrighteous are kept for punishment (2:9; cf. 3:7).
Ungodly
Approved rendering: ŋakkuɓe Alla
Transliteration: ŋakkuɓe Alla
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment; The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Rejected alternatives: diina bonɗo (‘one of bad religion’), rejected as risking being heard as a claim about a rival religious community rather than about ungodliness of life
Original: ἀσεβεῖς / ἀσεβής
Category: Judgment
Those living without reverence for God, reserved for judgment (2:5-6, 3:7).
Scoffers
Approved rendering: jalkitooɓe
Transliteration: jalkitooɓe
Doctrine: The Certainty of Christ’s Return
Original: ἐμπαῖκται
Category: Eschatology
Mockers who scoff specifically at the promise of Christ’s return in the last days (3:3), not skeptics generally.
Patience Of God
Approved rendering: munyal Alla
Transliteration: munyal Alla
Doctrine: Patience of God’s Timing
Original: μακροθυμία / μακροθυμεῖ
Category: Eschatology
God’s patient forbearance in delaying judgment, purposively aimed at repentance (3:9, 3:15). Reuses the Pulaaku core term munyal (a strong positive point of contact) but must be explicitly taught as purposive, relational forbearance aimed at repentance, not fatalistic delay under Islamic al-qadar (fixed decree) nor autonomous Pulaaku stoic self-endurance.
Scripture
Approved rendering: Deftere Senaande
Transliteration: Deftere Senaande
Doctrine: The Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Original: γραφή
Category: Scripture
The written, God-inspired sacred text (1:20, 3:16). Directly intersects the tahrif doctrine (Islamic teaching that earlier scriptures were corrupted and superseded by the Quran), already flagged Critical/High in the baseline’s inspiration_of_scripture entry. Must be reconfirmed against the specific regional Fulfulde New Testament translation’s existing term for ‘Scripture’ before deployment. Provisional pending confirmation.
Medium Risk Terms
Holy
Approved rendering: ceniiɗo
Transliteration: ceniiɗo
Doctrine: Sanctification
Rejected alternatives: laaɓɗo (physically clean, reserve for ritual/physical cleanliness only)
Original: ἅγιος
Category: Sanctification
Used of the Transfiguration mountain (fello ceniiɗo, 1:18) and the holy commandment (yamiroore ceniinde, 2:21); moral/relational set-apartness, distinct from ritual purity. Inherited from Romans package.
Called
Approved rendering: noddaaɗo
Transliteration: noddaaɗo
Doctrine: Divine Calling
Rejected alternatives: torraaɗo (invited, too weak)
Original: κλητός
Category: Salvation
torraaɗo remains too weak and must not be used. Inherited from Romans package.
Kingdom Of God
Approved rendering: laamu Alla
Transliteration: laamu Alla
Doctrine: Kingdom Mission
Original: βασιλεία
Category: Kingdom
Root for 2 Peter’s new eternal_kingdom term (laamu duumiiɗo, 1:11); must be distinguished from any historic or contemporary political Islamic state structure (Sokoto Caliphate memory). Inherited from Romans package.
Prophecy
Approved rendering: annabaawo
Transliteration: annabaawo
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Original: προφητεία
Category: Scripture
Central vocabulary of 2 Peter’s core passage (1:19-21) and of 3:2; ties directly to the inspiration_of_scripture doctrine. Inherited from Romans package.
Law
Approved rendering: sariya
Transliteration: sariya
Doctrine: Fulfillment of Prophecy
Root reused in 2 Peter’s new term ŋakkuɗo sariya (‘lawless,’ 2:7). Inherited from Romans package.
Glory
Approved rendering: manaango
Transliteration: manaango
Doctrine: Deity of Christ
Rejected alternatives: teddungal (reserve for human honor/dignity in Pulaaku contexts, avoid as the primary term for God’s glory)
Reused and intensified in 2 Peter’s new term manaango mawɗo (‘majesty,’ 1:16-17) for Christ’s Transfiguration glory and the Father’s bestowal of honor/glory (1:17). teddungal must remain conceptually distinct. Inherited from Romans package.
Servant Slave
Approved rendering: jiyaaɗo
Transliteration: jiyaaɗo
Doctrine: Apostleship / Servant Identity
Original: δοῦλος
Category: Church
Peter’s self-designation alongside apostle (1:1). Genuine bridge with the regional Muslim naming convention ‘Abdallah/Abdoulaye’ (servant of Allah), but must retain the NT sense of voluntary, relational bond-service to Christ specifically, not a generic pious self-designation before Allah in the abstract.
Lust Desire
Approved rendering: tuiindi
Transliteration: tuiindi
Doctrine: Divine Nature and Escaping Corruption; False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: ἐπιθυμία
Category: Sanctification
Illicit desire underlying corruption and false teaching (1:4, 2:10, 2:18, 3:3). Distinguish from neutral human desire generally.
Virtue
Approved rendering: moƴƴere
Transliteration: moƴƴere
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Rejected alternatives: teddungal (Pulaaku honor/dignity), rejected as the primary term to avoid conflating grace-given moral excellence with socially-conferred human honor achievement
Original: ἀρετή
Category: Sanctification
Part of the virtue chain (1:5).
Self Control
Approved rendering: hertinde hoore-mun
Transliteration: hertinde hoore-mun
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: ἐγκράτεια
Category: Sanctification
Provisional descriptive compound for ἐγκράτεια (1:6); confirm regional naturalness with native speakers before deployment.
Brotherly Affection
Approved rendering: giggol musidal
Transliteration: giggol musidal
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: φιλαδελφία
Category: Sanctification
Positive resonance with strong Fulani kinship/lineage values, as already noted in baseline for adoption and seed-of-David vocabulary (1:7).
Love
Approved rendering: yiɗde
Transliteration: yiɗde
Doctrine: Growing in Christian Virtue
Original: ἀγάπη
Category: Sanctification
General Fulfulde term for love/affection, crowning the virtue chain (1:7). Must be taught in its self-giving NT sense, not narrowed to romantic affection or Pulaaku’s family-loyalty-bound affection alone.
Promise
Approved rendering: fodoore
Transliteration: fodoore
Doctrine: The Certainty of Christ’s Return
Original: ἐπάγγελμα / ἐπαγγελία
Category: Eschatology
God’s ‘precious and very great promises’ (1:4) and the scoffers’ challenge ‘Where is the promise of his coming?’ (3:4). Must render identically at both occurrences per cross-document consistency rules.
Majesty
Approved rendering: manaango mawɗo
Transliteration: manaango mawɗo
Doctrine: The Certainty of Christ’s Return
Original: μεγαλειότης
Category: Christology
Christ’s majesty/magnificence witnessed at the Transfiguration (1:16); reuses and intensifies baseline’s manaango (glory).
Holy Mountain
Approved rendering: fello ceniiɗo
Transliteration: fello ceniiɗo
Doctrine: The Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Original: τὸ ὄρος τὸ ἅγιον
Category: Scripture
The Mount of Transfiguration (1:18), holy by God’s manifest presence, not inherent sanctity of the location. Flagged for native-speaker review: some Fulani pastoralist regions carry local traditional-religion associations with particular sacred hills; readers must not map this onto a pre-existing sacred-site veneration category.
Private Interpretation
Approved rendering: firo hoore-mun
Transliteration: firo hoore-mun
Doctrine: The Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Original: ἰδίας ἐπιλύσεως
Category: Scripture
Prophecy’s origin is not a human prophet’s own interpretive imagination (1:20). Must not be mapped onto the Islamic scholarly tradition of tafsir (qualified interpretation of an existing text) — this is about the origin of prophecy, not authorized interpretation.
Judgment
Approved rendering: ñaawoore
Transliteration: ñaawoore
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Original: κρίσις
Category: Judgment
God’s judgment/condemnation (2:3, 2:4, 2:9); root for day_of_judgment below.
Angels Who Sinned
Approved rendering: malaa’ika bakkondiiɓe
Transliteration: malaa’ika bakkondiiɓe
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: ἄγγελοι ἁμαρτήσαντες
Category: False Teaching
Sinning angels cast down for judgment as a paradigm case (2:4). malaa’ika is genuine shared vocabulary with Islamic usage (both traditions affirm angels).
Tartarus
Approved rendering: nokku ɓuutuɗo niɓe
Transliteration: nokku ɓuutuɗo niɓe
Doctrine: Judgment of Fallen Angels
Rejected alternatives: borrowing a generic Islamic hell-term (e.g. adjacent to Jahannam), rejected as importing unwanted specific theological furniture (levels of hell, intercession scenarios)
Original: Ταρταρώσας
Category: Judgment
The place of confinement for the sinning angels (2:4); no Fulfulde equivalent exists, rendered descriptively as ‘the deepest dark place.‘
Flood Noah
Approved rendering: ndiyam mawɗi / Nuuha
Transliteration: ndiyam mawɗi / Nuuha
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: κατακλυσμός / Νῶε
Category: False Teaching
The Genesis Flood and Noah, cited as a judgment/rescue paradigm (2:5; cf. 3:6). Nuuha is a shared proper name with the Quranic Nuh narrative, a genuine shared-narrative point of contact, but this passage’s specific theological function should be explicitly taught rather than assumed identical to the Quranic narrative’s emphases.
Sodom And Gomorrah
Approved rendering: Sodoma e Gomora
Transliteration: Sodoma e Gomora
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: Σόδομα καὶ Γόμορρα
Category: False Teaching
Cities judged as an example of coming judgment (2:6); shared referent with the Quranic account of the people of Lut, same shared-narrative caution as Noah.
Lawless
Approved rendering: ŋakkuɗo sariya
Transliteration: ŋakkuɗo sariya
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: ἄθεσμος
Category: False Teaching
Lawless conduct of the ungodly among whom Lot lived (2:7); reuses baseline’s sariya (law) root.
Authority Dominion
Approved rendering: laamu / joomiraagal
Transliteration: laamu / joomiraagal
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: κυριότης
Category: False Teaching
κυριότης, authority/dominion of angelic beings that false teachers arrogantly slander (2:10); distinct from Joom (kyrios) itself, referring to a class/office of authority, not the divine title.
Freedom
Approved rendering: dimaagu
Transliteration: dimaagu
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: ἐλευθερία
Category: False Teaching
The freedom falsely promised by false teachers who are themselves slaves of corruption (2:19). The irony must be preserved plainly; keep ‘slaves of bonande (corruption)’ in the same sentence/clause as the false promise of dimaagu.
Way Of Righteousness
Approved rendering: laawol peewal
Transliteration: laawol peewal
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment / Salvation
Original: ἡ ὁδὸς τῆς δικαιοσύνης
Category: Salvation
The path of right standing/conduct before God, abandoned by apostates (2:21); reuses baseline’s peewal root.
Holy Commandment
Approved rendering: yamiroore ceniinde
Transliteration: yamiroore ceniinde
Doctrine: Sanctification
Original: ἡ ἁγία ἐντολή
Category: Sanctification
The holy commandment delivered to believers, abandoned by apostates (2:21); reuses baseline’s ceniiɗo root.
New Heavens New Earth
Approved rendering: kammu kesa e leydi hesere
Transliteration: kammu kesa e leydi hesere
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Rejected alternatives: aljanna (paradise), rejected per baseline’s explicit caution that it must never stand in for the biblical hope itself
Original: καινοὶ οὐρανοὶ καὶ γῆ καινή
Category: Eschatology
The renewed cosmos in which God’s own righteousness dwells (3:13); reuses baseline’s peewal. Must be distinguished from an Islamic aljanna-style individual-reward-garden framework — this is cosmic renewal, not merely an individual reward-garden for the pious.
Wisdom
Approved rendering: hikima
Transliteration: hikima
Doctrine: The Reliability and Inspiration of Scripture
Original: σοφία
Category: Scripture
God-given insight, attributed to Paul’s writings alongside Scripture (3:15). Arabic-derived, shared with Islamic hikmah; genuinely useful bridge term provided it is not narrowed to a legal-scholarly sense at the expense of Spirit-given apostolic insight, paralleling baseline’s caution for sariya.
Eternal Kingdom
Approved rendering: laamu duumiiɗo
Transliteration: laamu duumiiɗo
Doctrine: The Eternal Kingdom as Believer’s Hope
Original: αἰώνιος βασιλεία
Category: Kingdom
‘The eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ’ (1:11), extending baseline’s laamu Alla with duumiiɗo (‘everlasting’). Must be distinguished from any historic or contemporary political Islamic state structure, given the memory of the Fulani-led Sokoto Caliphate.
Peter Name
Approved rendering: Piyeer / Bitrus (pending confirmation)
Transliteration: Piyeer / Bitrus
Doctrine: Servant and Apostle Identity
Rejected alternatives: adopting Bitrus alone as final without confirmation, rejected because its Arabic-derived form, shared with regional Islamic usage, may import unwanted resonance into the apostolic author’s own name
Original: Συμεὼν Πέτρος
Category: Church
The author’s proper name, ‘Simon Peter’ (1:1), not yet settled across dialects. Candidate forms: Piyeer (attested Christian-usage pattern paralleling Pool for Paul) or Bitrus (Arabic-derived form shared with neighboring Hausa Bible translation and regional Islamic usage). Recommend Piyeer as default pending confirmation, consistent with the pattern set for Pool/Paul, but flagged for mandatory theologian decision per baseline’s rule against silently improvising unsettled proper-name forms.
Low Risk Terms
Prophet
Approved rendering: annabi
Transliteration: annabi
Doctrine: Inspiration of Scripture
Original: προφήτης
Category: Scripture
Standard term, shared with Islamic usage for both OT and Quranic prophetic figures. Inherited from Romans package.
Elements Stoicheia
Approved rendering: geɗe winndere
Transliteration: geɗe winndere
Doctrine: The Day of the Lord and Final Judgment
Original: στοιχεῖα
Category: Eschatology
The basic elements of the created cosmos, to be dissolved by fire at the Day of the Lord (3:10, 3:12). Low ambiguity beyond consistency with surrounding judgment vocabulary.
Balaam
Approved rendering: Balaam
Transliteration: Balaam
Doctrine: False Teachers and Their Judgment
Original: Βαλαάμ
Category: False Teaching
OT prophet-for-hire cited as a warning example (2:15-16); proper name transliterated directly. Minimal risk.
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