kpa
Active verbNdebe script
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Meanings
cause
Active verbgather; search for
Active verbwander about
Active verbcause disturbance
Active verbAkpà m mkpà n’aka I am nursing a baby
Active verbAV
Active verb
Dialect & variants
No other variants have been documented for this word.
Examples
Ọ na-akpa nsogbu n'ezinụlọ.
— He is causing trouble in the family.
Ị na-akpa nsogbu?
— Are you causing trouble?
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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.
- kpàsuppression; compression; be needful gịnị nà-akpā gị? What are you in need of?; plaiting
- nupush; take hold of and cause to move; buy (palmwine, or other native drink); compare -go, -zụ buy (anything else); -kpa (buy oil only)
- kpa mkpaseek diligently; search for carefully e.g. -kpa mkpa akụ search for palm kernels in the farm (usually by children); be few; scarce; be few, scarce