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ụkpà

Noun

5 varieties

Ndebe script

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Meanings

  1. hut

    ẸkpẹyẹNoun
  2. a nut with a hard, black shell and a white nut inside of it; African walnut

    Noun
  3. "walnut" (Tetracarpidium conophorum (Mull Arg.) Hutch. and J.M. Dalz.) (Yoruba àsalà or awùsa)

    Noun
  4. ‘walnut’, Tetracarpidium conophorum

    ẸkpẹyẹNoun

Dialect & variants

Dialect: Afiikpo, Isuama, Owere, Ẹkpẹyẹ, Ọkụzụ

  • ụkpà Afiikpo
  • ụkpà Isuama
  • ụkpà Owere
  • ụkpà Ẹkpẹyẹ — same spelling as the Izugbe
  • ụkpà Ọkụzụ

No other variants have been documented for this word.

Examples

Nna m rụrụ ụkpà n'azụ ụlọ.

— My father built a hut behind the house.

Ị hụrụ ụkpà dị n'akụkụ ọhịa?

— Did you see the hut by the forest?

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