isì
Noun5 varieties
Ndebe script
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Meanings
scent; smell; aroma
Nounscent; smell
Noun
Dialect & variants
Dialect: Afiikpo, Ezaa, Nkanụ, Nsa, Nsụka
- isì Afiikpo
- ǹkpọ̀ Ezaa
- nshìshì Ezaa
- nshì Ezaa
- ishì Nkanụ
- isì Nsa — same spelling as the Izugbe
- ushì Nsụka
No other variants have been documented for this word.
Examples
Isì ọma na-esi n'ime ụlọ.
— A pleasant scent comes from inside the room.
Ị na-anụ isì nri?
— Can you smell the aroma of food?
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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.
- isihead; chief; sense; meaning; issue; head; basic
- ísìsmell
- ìsìblindness; folly
- èkpète(= isi egō) unit of cowrie counting system, consisting of six single cowries (ego) mkpụlū
- chị òkwèdivine with beads, nuts; pay divine homage to òkwè; hence village name (Isi òkwè); divine, with beads, nuts
- kpocha isicut hair (of head) very low (literally gather and remove); be bald Nwoke afù kpòchàlù isi That man is bald
- kpàchasị isibarb hair of head (less common than -kpàcha isi)