ìbà
NounNdebe script
Meanings
ancestral house, typical of Onitsha and corresponding to the òbi of other areas. It is constructed around a rectangular open- air courtyard, one end of which leads to the ùkpò or throne of the household head and the other to the entrance, beyond which is an open meeting-place (ọnụ ìbà). All rooms are within coursed mud walls (Henderson 1972 167)
Noununpounded garri
Noun
Dialect & variants
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Examples
E ji mgbidi ụrọ wuo ìbà anyị.
— Our ancestral house was built with mud walls.
Ị hụla ìbà ochie n'Onịcha?
— Have you seen the old ancestral house in Onitsha?
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