ogún
num
/ō.ɡṹ/
Definitions
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twenty
ogún náírà twenty nairaEélòó ni ìwé yìí? — Ogún dọ́là ni. How much is this book? — It's twenty dollars.Ogún ọmọ ni mo bí, ọmọọ koríko; ọgbọ̀n ọmọ ni mo bí, ọmọ èrùwà; kàkà kì a bí ẹgbàá ọ̀bùn, bí a bí ọ̀kan ṣoṣo ọ̀gá, ó tó. (If I boast that) it was twenty children that I gave birth to, they are weeds children; (if I boast that) it was thirty children that I gave birth to, they are grass children; rather than give birth to two thousand children, if we give birth to one distinguished children, that is enough. (proverb on quality children)Similar wordsokòó
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twenty; twentieth
Ojú ewé kelòó l'a kà kẹ́hìn? — Ojú ewé ogún l'a kà. Which page did we read last? — We read the twentieth page last.Similar wordsokòó
Other entries with this spelling
Wiktionary records 2 entries spelled “ogún”. You're reading one of them; here are the others.
Etymology
Proposed to have derived from Proto-Yoruboid *ōgwṵ́. Cognates include Ifè ogú, Igbo ọgụ, Igala ógwú, Itsekiri ogun, and Olukumi ọgbọ.
Used in
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Possibly used in
We are not certain about these, for one of two reasons.
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.
Both are fixable on Wiktionary, one word at a time. How to help.
ológúnowner of twenty
Wiktionary points at “ológún”. No word here is spelled that way, so we have linked “ológun”, which matches once tone marks are ignored. It may be a misspelling, or “ológún” may be a word nobody has written up yet.
ológun
warrior, soldier
Source: Wiktionary · etymology 3,
where this word is spelled “ogun”.
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