ọlụ
NounNdebe script
Meanings
work; task; something difficult, tiring, tiresome (from -lụ 1. work)
Nounfault; weakness (of behaviour in human beings) (from -lụ 2. defile)
Nounlimb of humans or leg of animals, including hip
Noun
Dialect & variants
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Examples
Gịnî bù ọlụ gī?
— What is your work?
Bìa kà ànyị je ọlū
— Come and let us go to work
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Same spelling, different tones
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- oluneck
- Olu"people that live by the water", term used to denote those who live by the bank of the River Niger
- òluused in
- òkwụkwụpaying Anà m àbịa ịkwụ onye ọ bụnà dịkà ọlụ yā sìlì dị I am coming to pay everyone according to his work Ibì egō adā àdị ọlọ kà òkwụkwụ yā Borrowing money is not usually as difficult as repaying it; jumping
- kpamkpàmentirely; completely Alụ chago m ọlụ afù kpamkpàm I have finished the work completely