aṣọ òkè
noun
/ā.ʃɔ̄ ò.kè/
اشوَْ وْكعِ (alternative), asọ-òkè (alternative)
Definitions
-
aso oke, a type of Yoruba handwoven textile used for clothing
Similar words
- The clothes made from the aṣọ òkè fabric
Etymology
From aṣọ (“cloth”) + òkè (“uplands; hills”), literally “Cloth from the uplands”.
Component words
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.
aso okeEnglish
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “aṣọ oke”.
Reference:
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