le
verb
/lè/ low-tone /lē/ mid-tone /lé/ high-tone
spelling unconfirmed
Definitions
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to be hard in texture, to be difficult
Iṣẹ́ náà le bí ojú ẹja. The work is as hard as a fish's eye.
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to be healthy, to be in good health
ṣe ará le o? Are you in good health?Similar wordsyáverb 2 entries are spelled “yá”, and the list this came from doesn't say which one is meant — we've linked to the first. yá to be fast yá to borrow
Other entries with this spelling
Wiktionary records 3 entries spelled “le”. You're reading one of them; here are the others.
Dialectal synonyms “to be difficult, hard” 35 varieties
Southeast Yoruba
- Ọ̀bà Àkókó
- nile
- Ìjẹ̀bú Òde
- ni
- Ẹ̀pẹ́
- ni
- Ìkòròdú
- ni
- Ṣágámù
- ni
- Òkìtìpupa
- nile
- Oǹdó
- ni
- Usẹn
- le
Ìtsẹkírì
- Ìwẹrẹ
- ni
Olùkùmi
- Ugbódù
- ni
Central Yoruba
- Àdó Èkìtì
- le
- Òdè Èkìtì
- le
- Ìfàkì Èkìtì
- le
- Àkúrẹ́
- le
Northwest Yoruba
- Èbúté Mẹ́tà
- le
- Èkó
- le
- Ìbàdàn
- le
- Igbó Òrà
- le
- Òṣogbo (Òsogbo)
- le
- Ìlọrin
- le
- Òtù
- le
- Ìwéré Ilé
- le
- Òkèhò
- le
- Ìsẹ́yìn
- le
- Ṣakí
- le
- Tedé
- le
- Ìgbẹ́tì
- le
- Ọ̀yọ́
- le
- Nàìjíríà
- le
- Bɛ̀nɛ̀
- le
Northeast Yoruba/Okun
- Kabba
- le
Ede languages/Southwest Yoruba
- Akpáré
- le
- Atakpamɛ
- le
- Est-Mono
- le
- Tchetti (Tsɛti, Cɛti)
- le
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Wiktionary says some of them were built from a word spelled like this one, without saying which meaning, so we show each under every meaning it could have come from.
The rest are spelled a little differently from anything here — a tone mark or an underdot apart — so we cannot tell a misspelling of this word from a word that has no page yet.
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kára ó leA Yoruba greeting meaning, may you always be in good health!
Wiktionary points at “kára ó le”. No word here is spelled that way, so we have linked “kára ó le!”, which matches once tone marks are ignored. It may be a misspelling, or “kára ó le” may be a word nobody has written up yet.
kára ó le!
may you always be in good health!
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.
to be difficult
Source: Wiktionary · etymology 2,
where this word is spelled “le”.
Reference:
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