sù
Active verbNdebe script
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Meanings
grunt; make sound like lorry, automobile or other powered vehicle, machine, etc.
Active verbstab; pierce with the end or point of (e.g. rod, spear, spike, etc.)
Active verbcompress; shorten; be short
Active verbwear (clothes)
Active verb
Dialect & variants
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Examples
Ụgbọ ala ochie ahụ na-asù n'okporo ụzọ.
— That old vehicle grunts on the road.
Ị na-anụ ka igwe ahụ na-asù?
— Do you hear the machine grunting?
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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.
- suinitially or firstly, especially before doing another; pound (dry object; burn; destroy by burning
- sụpound (soft objects, e.g. fufu, pounded yam; compare -su 1.); boil; begin to boil; sing (of kettle on cooker); cut, clear (bush, forest); weed
- sọbe pleasant, sweet; please; like; appeal to; avoid (out of respect); honour; revere; precede; be next before; be older than