lụ
Active verb7 varieties
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Meanings
join in marriage; marry
Active verb
Dialect & variants
Dialect: Afiikpo, Ezaa, Isuama, Mbaise, Nsụka, Owere, Udi
- lụta Afiikpo
- lụta Ezaa
- lə̣ Isuama
- lụà ,lụò Isuama
- lụta Mbaise
- lụà ,lụò Mbaise
- lụ Mbaise
- lə̣ Nsụka
- lụ Owere
- lụà ,lụò Owere
- nụ Udi
No other variants have been documented for this word.
Examples
Ọ lụrụ nwunye ya n'ụlọ ọgbakọ.
— He married his wife in church.
Ha ga-alụ n'ọnwa na-abịa.
— They will marry next month.
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Same spelling, different tones
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- lụ̀fight; strive
- lụwork; construct; make; defile; desecrate; be faulty, defective; see -la 2.
- B.pluck (leaves from plant); rub oneself with something greasy; be speechless; be unable to speak much, or at all
- lùbecome soft; soften; (of pears) soften by warming (in hot ashes, water, etc.); (of cassava) become soft by fermentation
- rịwalk (of insects); for or in favor of - used when the verb ends with 'ị'; fill up (of healing sore, or receptacle being gradually filled with water)
- ọlụwork; task; something difficult, tiring, tiresome (from -lụ 1. work); fault; weakness (of behaviour in human beings) (from -lụ 2. defile); limb of humans or leg of animals, including hip
- kpọ akpọbe dry Wètalụ m òfu oko ọkā kpọ lụ akpọ Bring me a dry ear of corn
- kpọ mbụ = -kpọ mgbụ -kpọ nkụdry (e.g. of leaf); be dry Wètalụ m akwụkwọ kpọ lụ nkụ Bring me a dry leaf Ọ bụlụ nà ị ñaa azù ndù afù nókụ ọ gà-àkpọ nkụ ọsọ ọ sọ If you place that fresh fish over the fire it will get dry quickly