móòluẹ̀
noun
/móò.lū.ɛ̀/
Definitions
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molue (a type of bus in Lagos)
Wọ́n wọ móòluẹ̀ lọ sí Ìkòròdú. They took a molue to Ikorodu.Related wordsdáńfó
Etymology
From English mould + ẹ̀ (“it (third-person singular object pronoun)”), literally “mould it”, describing the manufacturing process.
Component words
English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">mould</i>ẹ̀it (third-person singular object pronoun)
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.
molueNigerian PidginmolueEnglish
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “mooluẹ”.
Reference:
en-mooluẹ-yo-noun-jqHnS~qa