sa
Active verbNdebe script
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Meanings
wash; scrub
Active verbupon; on top
Extensional suffixbe upon; be on top; be over
Active verb
Dialect & variants
No other variants have been documented for this word.
Examples
O malu sa ahu kene oshimili makana o na abu Ugbana wusia okene oshimilli
— A person who has bathed in the ocean (wisdom, granted vision, cleansing and the like) should show their appreciation, for even the egret is always grateful to the sea after taking its bath.
Anà m àsa afele
— I am washing plates
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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.
- sàspread; scatter; open; wash; be wide; all over; open (hand, book, cloth, but not door); answer; reply; excuse; retort; make one's defence
- chafinish doing; completely; totally; be light- or reddish-coloured (as opposed to being dark); wash, scrub (hand, foot, hard object); clean off; be clean, pure (compare -sa 1.)