bed
Meanings
bed
Dialect & variants
No other variants have been documented for this word.
Examples
Nwa ahụ dinara n'elu bed.
— The child lay on the bed.
Biko, dozie bed gị tupu ị pụọ.
— Please, arrange your bed before you go out.
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Same spelling, different tones
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- ùkpòridge; bed or plot for growing vegetables; seat or bed made of mud; bed or plot for growing vegetables
- aŋāwild cane; rattan; generic term applying to Oncocalamus wrightianus Hutch., O. acanthocnemis, Ancistrophyllum secundiflorum, and A. opacum, used to make chairs, beds, walking-sticks, baskets, trays, whips string, etc.
- àkwàbed; bridge
- nabàgo to bed
- beèdìbed (English, compare àkwà)
- lakpugo to bed or sleep
- òkpùkpòbed of raised earth (= ìkpò)
- mụ n̄nwāto birth a child; give birth; put to bed; deliver a b
- àkwàndinàbed
- 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)
- ma mkpūlumake an earthbed, mound; make a bed of earth, mound