mkpu
Noun5 varieties
Ndebe script
Voice recording
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Meanings
shout; scream
Nounloud cry; shout; call for help
Nounant-hill
Nountermite
Nounceremonies performed for girls reaching puberty
Nouncry
Noun
Dialect & variants
Dialect: Achala, Anam, Isuama, Mkpọọ, Owere
- mkpu Achala — same spelling as the Izugbe
- mkpu Anam — same spelling as the Izugbe
- mkpu Isuama — same spelling as the Izugbe
- ǹkanụ̄ Mkpọọ
- mkpu Owere — same spelling as the Izugbe
No other variants have been documented for this word.
Examples
Onyuuweojii tiri mkpu sị "welie aka gị elu!"
— The police officer shouted "put your hands up!"
Ada ga-awụli elu, tie mkpu ma Chike nye ya mgbaaka ahụ.
— Ada will jump up and scream when Chike gives her that ring.
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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.
- mkpùsmall group (contrast ikpo); carpenter's plane (-kpù 2. scrape)
- ti mkpùkpòpraise someone and remind him of what his forefathers did, sometimes to encourage him to undertake new enterprises; chant praise-poetry; in sorrow, praise the dead in mourning, usually by someone close to the deceased; raise the alarm, as death (compare -ti mkpu)