ajá
noun
/ā.d͡ʒá/
azá (alternative)
Definitions
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dog
Similar wordsolókílìnoun olókílìnoun 2 entries are spelled “olókílì”, and the list this came from doesn't say which one is meant — we've linked to the first. olókílì dog lókílì dog ọ̀kẹ́rẹ́gbànounkítànounkílìwíPossibly similar wordsọ̀kọ́noun Wiktionary points at “ọ̀kọ́”. No word here is spelled that way, so we have linked “ọkọ́”, which matches once tone marks are ignored. It may be a misspelling, or “ọ̀kọ́” may be a word nobody has written up yet. ọkọ́ hoe ọkọ husband ọkọ̀ vehicle ọkọ̀ Persicaria senegalensis (syn. Polygonum senegalense) ọ̀kọ̀ spear, lance
Etymology
Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruba *a-já, from Proto-Edekiri *á-já, ultimately from Proto-Yoruboid *á-byá. Cognates include Igala ábíá and Olukumi azá.
Possibly derived from
Each of these pages lists a word as built from it, spelled a little differently from this one — a different tone mark, or an underdot this word doesn't have.
Tone and underdots are what tell two Yorùbá words apart, so we can't say whether the other page meant this word and mistyped it, or meant a word that has no page here yet.
Writing that word up on Wiktionary settles it. How to help.
jàverb
“jà” lists “ajà” as a word built from it. No word here is spelled that way, so this page was matched to it by ignoring tone marks. It may be a misspelling, or “ajà” may be a word nobody has written up yet.
jà
to fight, to wrestle, to struggle
Words in other languages from this one
These are words in other languages that came from this Yorùbá word, mostly through trade, the Atlantic slave trade, and contact with neighbouring languages.
They are not translations. A word here means what it means in its own language, which may have drifted a long way from the Yorùbá it started as.
ayáLucumí
Source: Wiktionary · etymology 1,
where this word is spelled “aja”.
Reference:
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