ọsán
noun
/ɔ̄.sã́/
Definitions
- leather strings on the side of a drum to maintain tension of the skin (awọ) (in particular) talking drum strings made from the hide of a calf or underside of a mature cow.
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bowstring
Ọsán tó já ló sọ ọrun di ọ̀pá. The bowstring that got broken was what turned the bow into a stick.
Etymology
From ọ- (“nominalising prefix”) + sán (“to tie”).
Component words
ọ-nominalising prefix
sánto tie
2 entries are spelled “sán”. The etymology calls it “to tie”, but that isn't enough to tell them apart — we've linked to the first.
sán
to thunder
sán
to crack; to split
Used in
ọsán ìnàróọsán ìwérùn
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.
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ọsán já ọrun dọ̀páproverb
Wiktionary points at “ọsán já ọrun dọ̀pá”. No word here is spelled that way, so we have linked “ọsán já”, which matches once tone marks are ignored. It may be a misspelling, or “ọsán já ọrun dọ̀pá” may be a word nobody has written up yet.
ọsán já
a statement uttered after hearing the death of an important figure; how the mighty have fallen
Source: Wiktionary · etymology 3,
where this word is spelled “ọsan”.
Reference:
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