ụkwụ
Noun6 varieties
Ndebe script
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Meanings
foot; leg
Nounfoot; leg; footstep
Nounleg
Noun
Dialect & variants
Dialect: Ajalị, Ezaa, Isuama, Ngwa, Nkanụ, Owere
- ụkwụ Ajalị
- ọkpà Ezaa
- ụkwụ Isuama
- àkpị̀rị̀kpà Ngwa
- ọkpà Nkanụ
- ụkwụ Owere
No other variants have been documented for this word.
Examples
Ụkwụ m na-egbu m mgbe m si n'ahịa lọta.
— My foot is paining me after I returned from the market.
Sacha ụkwụ gị tupu ị banye n'ime ụlọ.
— Wash your leg before you enter the house.
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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.
- ukwularge; big; great; large; big; master
- ukwùwaist; loins; the base of an object; waist; loins; stump (of tree); base
- ùkwùbundle; (also ùkwù egō) unit in cowrie counting system, consisting of ten èkpète (of six cowries each), thus sixty cowries
- ọkpàleg, shin (compare ụkwụ); shuttle
- ǹzò ụkwūfootprint, footstep (-zò ụkwụ)