afa
Noun6 varieties
Ndebe script
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Meanings
divination; shells of native mango fruit strung together and used by medicine men in divination
Noun
Dialect & variants
Dialect: Achala, Ajalị, Ngwa, Nkanụ, Owere, Ọnịcha
- ava Achala
- aha Ajalị
- àjà Ngwa
- avha Nkanụ
- afa Owere — same spelling as the Izugbe
- afa Ọnịcha — same spelling as the Izugbe
No other variants have been documented for this word.
Examples
Nwoke afù bù onye a màlù afà ya
— The man is well-known
Afa gwara m onye lọrọ m ụwa.
— Divination told me who I reincarnated from.
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