mụ
Ndebe script
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Meanings
give birth to; beget
sharpen
Dialect & variants
No other variants have been documented for this word.
Examples
Nne ya mụrụ ụmụ abụọ.
— Her mother gave birth to two children.
Ị mụrụ nwa n'afọ a?
— Did you give birth this year?
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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.
- mùlearn; study; shine
- chì ọchìlaugh hard or uproariously (no vowel suffix; less common than -mụ amụ)
- kpa nkàtatalk; converse; chat Bikō nye mụ nà Ibè efè níme ụnò ụlā màkà nà ànyiCchòlù ịkpā nkàta nébe afù Please leave the room for Ibe and myself, for we want to chat there; converse
- kpọ mkpụkpọto drive (a peg into the earth) Anà m èje ịkpọ mkụkpọ n’okè mụ nà Ịbā I am going to put pegs along the boundary between Ịba and myself