arúgbó
noun
/ā.ɾú.ɡ͡bó/
arígbó (alternative)
Definitions
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old age, elderliness
Possibly similar wordsògbónoun Wiktionary points at “ògbó”. No word here is spelled that way, so we have linked “ògbo”, which matches once tone marks are ignored. It may be a misspelling, or “ògbó” may be a word nobody has written up yet. ògbo a name for several species of small wild cat, similar to the civet
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elder, old person
Similar wordsPossibly similar wordsagbónoun Wiktionary points at “agbó”. No word here is spelled that way, so we have linked “àgbò”, which matches once tone marks are ignored. It may be a misspelling, or “agbó” may be a word nobody has written up yet. àgbò ram agbo crowd, àgbo herbal remedy; usually squeezed by hand in water and consumed as a liquid àgbó A type of drum igbo alternative form of agbo (“circle, group”)
Etymology
From a- (“agent prefix”) + rú + ogbó (“elderliness, old age”), literally “One who has become one of old age”, compare with Olukumi árígbó and Itsekiri ẹlígbó, Igala ánágbó, proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruba *a-rígbó, perhaps ultimately from a proto Edekiri form, though gbó (“to be old”), can be traced back to Proto-Yoruboid
Component words
a-agent prefixrúogbóelderliness, old age
Derived from
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These words list this one in their own definitions. This word does not list them back, so Wiktionary records the link in one direction only.
The meaning shown next to each is the one that named this word.
elderly person, elder, senior citizen
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “arugbo”.
Reference:
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