alịlị
NounNdebe script
Meanings
a millipede (compare esu)
Noun
Dialect & variants
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Examples
Alịlị na-aga n'ala mgbe mmiri zoro.
— Millipede walks on the ground when it rains.
Ị hụrụ alịlị n'ime ụlọ?
— Did you see a millipede in the house?
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Same spelling, different tones
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- àlìlìenvy; jealousy; ill will
- esu(compare alịlị) millipede; giant African millipede (Archispirostreptus gigas)
- mkpa ọ kụmatches; shove off; brush off; set aside (normally with instrument); pick out (with stick) and remove; push open by force, press open (e.g. burst door open); push off (e.g. three persons lying on a bed, one of them being pushed off as a result of the others being selfish. The pushing is not done by the hand but by the body) Bikō, kpapù alịlị afù ìlo Please take that millipede outside; (fig.) push out (e.g. if one person is forced to leave house where he was living with others)