ìjàpá
noun
/ì.d͡ʒà.k͡pá/
Definitions
-
tortoise, turtle
Similar wordsahunnoun 4 entries are spelled “ahun”, and the list this came from doesn't say which one is meant — we've linked to the first. ahun turtle, tortoise ahún itching ahùn Alstonia boonei (cheesewood, pattern wood, or stool wood) awun alternative form of ahun (“tortoise”)
- Beetle
Etymology
From ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) + jàpá (“the motion of one moving awkwardly”, ideophone), literally “That which moves around awkwardly”.
Component words
ì-nominalizing prefixjàpáthe motion of one moving awkwardly
Dialectal synonyms “tortoise, turtle” 48 varieties
Southeast Yoruba
- Ìjẹ̀bú Òde
- ọlọ́bawun
- Oǹdó
- ọnié
Ìtsẹkírì
- Ìwẹrẹ
- olukume
Olùkùmi
- Ugbódù
- ághọ́n
Central Yoruba
- Àdó Èkìtì
- ìjàpáaụnalábaụnọlọ́baụn
- Àkúrẹ́
- ìjàpáaụnalábaụnọlọ́baụn
- Ọ̀tùn Èkìtì
- ìjàpáaụnalábaụnọlọ́baụn
Northwest Yoruba
- Èbúté Mẹ́tà
- ìjàpáawunalábawun
- Èkó
- ìjàpáawunalábawun
- Ìbàdàn
- ìjàpáahunalábahun
- Igbó Òrà
- ìjàpáahunalábahun
- Òṣogbo (Òsogbo)
- ìjàpáahunalábahun
- Ọ̀fà
- ìjàpáahunalábahun
- Ìfẹ́lódùn LGA
- ìjàpá
- Ìrẹ́pọ̀dùn LGA
- alábaun
- Ìsin LGA
- ìjàpá
- Ìlọrin
- ìjàpáahunalábahun
- Òtù
- ìjàpáahunalábahun
- Ìwéré Ilé
- ìjàpáahunalábahun
- Òkèhò
- ìjàpáahunalábahun
- Ìsẹ́yìn
- ìjàpáahunalábahun
- Ṣakí
- ìjàpáahunalábahun
- Tedé
- ìjàpáahunalábahun
- Ìgbẹ́tì
- ìjàpáahunalábahun
- Ọ̀yọ́
- ìjàpáahunalábahun
- Ògbómọ̀ṣọ́ (Ògbómọ̀sọ́)
- ìjàpáahunalábahun
- Nàìjíríà
- ìjàpáahunawunalábawun
- Bɛ̀nɛ̀
- ìjàkpáahunawunalábawun
Northeast Yoruba/Okun
- Kabba
- ọbaun
Ede languages/Southwest Yoruba
- Sokode
- ɔ̀kpɔ̀lɔ́
- Cábɛ̀ɛ́ (Ìdàdú)
- ògìdɛ́nìjàkpá
- Tchaourou
- ògìdɛ́n
- Baàtɛ
- ògìdɔ̃́
- Igbó Ìdàácà (Dasa Zunmɛ̀)
- ògìdánáwìrì
- Ìkpòbɛ́
- ògìdán
- Onigbolo
- agidan
- Kétu
- ògìdán
- Akpáré
- ègìɖã́
- Atakpamɛ
- ègìɖã́
- Boko
- ègìdã́
- Est-Mono
- ègìɖã́
- Moretan
- ògìdã́
- Tchetti (Tsɛti, Cɛti)
- ègìɖã́
- Awotébi
- ahaowo
- Partago
- abãõ
- Kandi
- baawɔ̃
- Kambole
- àjàkpá
- Manigri
- ògìdã́
Related words
ẹwìrìnoun
2 entries are spelled “ẹwìrì”, and the list this came from doesn't say which one is meant — we've linked to the first.
ẹwìrì
bellows (used by blacksmiths)
ẹwìrì
turtle, sea turtle
Listed as a similar word by
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.
tortoise
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “ijapa”.
Reference:
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