ọm!
InterjectionNdebe script
!
Meanings
salutation of respect to an old man (especially a pagan)
Interjection
Dialect & variants
No other variants have been documented for this word.
Examples
Ụmụaka ahụ kelere ya, sị, 'Ọm!'
— The children greeted him, saying, 'Ọm!'
Ọm! Nna anyị, nọdụ ala.
— Ọm! Our father, sit down.
Related words
Propose an edit
Sign in or create an account to propose an edit. An editor reads every proposal before anything changes.
Add a pronunciation
Sign in or create an account to record a pronunciation. Recordings are reviewed by an editor before they are published — and a recording is credited to the person who made it.
Same spelling, different tones
These entries fold to the same letters once tone is removed, so a tone-blind search returns all of them.