Ǹrì
Noun6 varieties
Ndebe script
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Meanings
settlement of Nri, founded by Nri son of Èrì, and its people; (more loosely) people who claim some kind of relationship with Nri
Noun
Dialect & variants
Dialect: Abịrịba, Mbaise, Ngwa, Nsa, Nsụka, Ọnịcha
- Nri Abịrịba · 2 recordings
- Nri Mbaise · 2 recordings
- Nri Ngwa · 2 recordings
- Ǹrì Nsa — same spelling as the Izugbe
- Ǹrì Nsụka — same spelling as the Izugbe
- Ǹrì Ọnịcha — same spelling as the Izugbe
No other variants have been documented for this word.
Examples
Ọ bụ onye Ǹrì, nne ya si ebe ahụ.
— He is a person of Nri; his mother comes from there.
Ndị Ǹrì na-azụ ahịa n'obodo anyị.
— The Nri people trade in our town.
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Same spelling, different tones
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- nrifood; meal; food; any nourishing substance that is eaten or otherwise taken into the body to sustain life
- ǹrifood
- alòadvice; counsel; suggestion; idea; consultation; advice; counsel; suggestion; idea; spear used by titled men for ceremonies (= ubē ǹzè)
- ùwàthe world, earth, universe; (in Nri philosophy the visible world, contrasted with Mmụō (ancestors), Alūsị (spirits), and Òkìkè (the creator), consisting of igwē nà ànì (the firmament and the earth), and occupied by mmadù (human beings), agū (forests), anụmànù (animals), etc.
- alūsịspirit; divinity; deity; invisible supernatural ‘being-force’, divided by Nri into four types those directly established by Chukwu such as Igwē, the firmament those established by Eri such as Ànì, Ajaànà, Ìfèjiọkū, Onuebo, and the market days Èke, Oyè, Àfò, and Ǹkwọ; those established by the ancestors such as Idemmīli, Udō, Arò, Àkwalị Òmùmù, Ǹgènè, Ògwùgwù, and Òrìmmìlì; those called Agwù. The market-days and the alūsị of the third and fourth types have human temperaments and are represented by nkwu (images). Others are regarded as forces rather than beings and so can be represented only symbolically in shrines (Onwuejeogwu 1974:85 ff.)
- òkìkècreation; creation; (in Nri thought) one of the aspects of Chukwu, manifested in the creation of things visible and invisible and in the laws of nature (-kè create)
- òdìnàànị ǸrìNri culture; (in Nri) the highest ritual-political title in Nri and Oreri
- Chukwuthe supreme god; big God; great God; God (chi 1. + ukwu). In Nri belief, Chukwu has four major manifestations Anyanwū, the sun, which represents Chukwu as everywhere present, all-powerful, and the source of knowledge; Agbàlà, manifested in the fertility of the earth and its creatures; Chi, the ability of living beings to procreate; Òkìkè, the never-ending process of creation (Onwuejeogwu 1974:82)
- mmanwụmasquerade; (at Nri) the highest women’s title, which elderly married women of exemplary character are allowed to take and in which the secret of the ritual mask is revealed (Onwuejeogwu 1974:177)
- àka Ǹrìmale palace dwarf associated with Ezē Ǹrì; dwarf associated with Nri people
- nwa Ǹrìan Nri man who has taken the Ichi title and travels widely through Igbo-land exercising ritual and political authority