òmụ
NounNdebe script
Meanings
young palm-fronds; central spike of young raphia or oil palm (See Anyanwu, C.N. 'The uses of the ọmụ in Igbo culture'. Odenigbo 2.42-6, 1977)
Noungunflint
Noun
Dialect & variants
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Examples
Pụta gbutuo òmụ n'osisi nkwụ ahụ.
— Go out and cut the young fronds from that palm tree.
Òmụ ọhụrụ na-esi n'isi nkwụ apụta.
— New young fronds come out from the top of the palm.
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