afà
NounNdebe script
Meanings
name; sort; kind
Noun
Dialect & variants
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Examples
Afà nwata a bụ Chidi.
— This child's name is Chidi.
Afà osisi a bụ gịnị?
— What kind of tree is this?
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- afadivination; shells of native mango fruit strung together and used by medicine men in divination
- Agwùan alūsị, or class of alūsị, of ambivalent character, the spirit of afa divination. Agwụ possesses those who are called to serve as ndị dibìà, the signs of a vocation being absent- mindedness, disorientation, and the like