ògbè
Ndebe script
Meanings
quietly; softly
a small market
gourd used for carrying water
Dialect & variants
No other variants have been documented for this word.
Examples
O kwuru okwu n'ògbè.
— He spoke quietly.
Bịa n'ògbè, nwa ahụ na-ehi ụra.
— Come quietly, the child is sleeping.
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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.
- ógbècolony
- ogbesample; specimen
- ogbèlump; piece; loaf; whole (of ball-like objects, e.g. bread, cake, ụkwà, etc.); whole, head of [orange, coconut etc] (especially of fruits); 'village', i.e. a residential unit smaller than one of the three 'quarters' (Ezi, Ìfìtè, and Ìkeǹgà) into which a 'town’ (òbòdò) is divided, and larger than a lineage or 'family' (ụmù nnà)
- ògbeone variety of "garden egg" or egg-plant (probably Solanum incanum Linn.); compare àfụfā, the general term for all varieties of Solanum
- ọgbe etcsee ogbe, etc.