òkwù
NounNdebe script
Meanings
friend (good or bad sense)
Noun
Dialect & variants
No other variants have been documented for this word.
Examples
Òkwù m bịara ebe a ụnyaahụ.
— My friend came here yesterday.
Òkwù gị ọ nọ n'ụlọ ugbu a?
— Is your friend at home now?
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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.
- okwuspeech; word; speech; affair; matter; dispute; quarrel; cover; lid; stopper; cork (from -kwu 2. cover)
- òkwuword; speech; talk; matter; dispute; a small house with a steep thatched roof and a single door, used as a sleeping house in mosquito-infested areas and as a storehouse
- kwubìend a speech Bikō, kwubìzịa okwu afù Please, end that speech
- okwuchicork; lid; cover; cork; stopper; lid (compare okwu 2.)
- ọkwụ(chi)see okwu(chi)
- kwu okwu azụslander; back-bite Ọ nà-èkwu m okwu āzụ He is talking about me behind my back
- kwu ezi okwu#speak the truth Ọ bù ezi okwu#kà m nà-èkwu I am speaking the truth