ó dàbọ̀!
intj
/ó dà.bɔ̀/
Definitions
- goodbye, farewell
Etymology
From ó (“impersonal third-person subject pronoun”) + di (“to become”) + àbọ̀ (“return”), literally “till I come again”
Component words
óimpersonal third-person subject pronoun
3 entries are spelled “ó”. The etymology calls it “impersonal third-person subject pronoun”, but that isn't enough to tell them apart — we've linked to the first.
ó
he/she/it (third-person singular non-honorific personal pronoun)
ó
him, her, it (third-person singular object pronoun following a monosyllabic verb with a low- or mid-tone /o/)
ó
The name of the Latin script letter O/o.
dito becomeàbọ̀return
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.
ó dìgbòóṣephrase
“ó dìgbòóṣe” lists “ó dàbọ̀” as a word built from it. No word here is spelled that way, so this page was matched to it by ignoring tone marks. It may be a misspelling, or “ó dàbọ̀” may be a word nobody has written up yet.
ó dìgbòóṣe
goodbye; till tomorrow
goodbye; till tomorrow
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.
adā̀bōHausa
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “o dabọ”.
Reference:
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