ǹti àkwà
NounNdebe script
Meanings
(literally beater of clothes) a club-like wooden instrument shaped like a short pestle and used by native washermen in place of an iron in smoothing thick heavy native clothes
Noun
Dialect & variants
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Examples
O ji ǹti àkwà na-akụ akwa ya.
— She uses a clothes beater to beat her cloth.
Ị hụrụ ǹti àkwà m n'ụlọ ịsa akwa?
— Did you see my clothes beater in the washing room?
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