irú
noun
/ī.ɾú/
urú (alternative, Ekiti)
Definitions
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fermented locust beans used in cooking.
Similar wordsirúgbàáirúgbàá àbàtàUsed in
Other entries with this spelling
Wiktionary records 3 entries spelled “irú”. You're reading one of them; here are the others.
Etymology
From Clipping of irúgbàá, ultimately from irú (“seed”) + ìgbá (“the tree Parkia biglobosa”), literally “seed of the Parkia biglobosa”.
Component words
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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.
iruEnglish
Source: Wiktionary · etymology 3,
where this word is spelled “iru”.
Reference:
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