ezi
Noun8 varieties
Ndebe script
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Meanings
goodness; truth; kindness
Nounproper; right; good; true; short for ezigbo
Nominal Modifiertrue
Noun
Dialect & variants
Dialect: Ajalị, Isuama, Izii, Mkpọọ, Nkanụ, Nsụka, Owere, Ọnịcha
- mmā Ajalị
- ezhi Isuama
- ree Izii
- ezigbō Mkpọọ
- ezhi Nkanụ
- ọ̀yị Nsụka
- ezə Nsụka
- ezhi Owere
- ezi Ọnịcha — same spelling as the Izugbe
No other variants have been documented for this word.
Examples
Ọ nà-èzi ānyị àzụ akā
— He is being hypocritical with us. (literally He is showing us the back of the hand)
Ezi anyị ruru unyi n'ụtụtụ a maka mmemme anyị mere ụnyaahụ.
— Our compound is dirty this morning due to the party we had yesterday.
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Same spelling, different tones
These entries fold to the same letters once tone is removed, so a tone-blind search returns all of them.
- ezìpig;; pig; domestic pig; dirty person
- èzioutside or precincts of a house; outside or precincts of a house, compound; family or family residence (especially extended); extended family
- ogbèwhole, head of [orange, coconut etc] (especially of fruits); lump; piece; loaf; whole (of ball-like objects, e.g. bread, cake, ụkwà, etc.); 'village', i.e. a residential unit smaller than one of the three 'quarters' (Ezi, Ìfìtè, and Ìkeǹgà) into which a 'town’ (òbòdò) is divided, and larger than a lineage or 'family' (ụmù nnà)
- òbòdòfamily, town; town; town; country. An òbòdò is, in the Onitsha area, usually subdivided into three 'quarters' and named Ezi, Ìfìtè and Ìkeǹgà
- kwu ezi okwu#speak the truth Ọ bù ezi okwu#kà m nà-èkwu I am speaking the truth