"ẹgusi" meaning in Yoruba

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Noun

IPA: /ɛ̀.ɡú.sí/ Forms: ẹ̀gúsí [canonical]
Etymology: Possibly from ẹ̀gún (“thorn”) + esí (“melon, pumpkin”), literally “Thorns of the melon”? Etymology templates: {{compound|yo|ẹ̀gún|esí|lit=Thorns of the melon|t1=thorn|t2=melon, pumpkin}} ẹ̀gún (“thorn”) + esí (“melon, pumpkin”), literally “Thorns of the melon” Head templates: {{head|yo|noun|head=ẹ̀gúsí|head2=}} ẹ̀gúsí, {{yo-pos|noun|ẹ̀gúsí|}} ẹ̀gúsí, {{yo-noun|ẹ̀gúsí}} ẹ̀gúsí
  1. The name of two species of melon
    Cucumeropsis Mannii
    Categories (topical): Foods Categories (lifeform): Gourd family plants, Plants
    Sense id: en-ẹgusi-yo-noun-nFxhuDmE Disambiguation of Foods: 62 4 21 14 Disambiguation of Gourd family plants: 59 7 23 11 Disambiguation of Plants: 62 5 21 12 Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Yoruba entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 72 2 16 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 63 1 22 13 Disambiguation of Yoruba entries with incorrect language header: 59 3 24 14
  2. The name of two species of melon
    watermelon
    Synonyms: bàrà olómi, edè
    Sense id: en-ẹgusi-yo-noun-5z6kIVjw
  3. egusi (The seeds of the egusi melon used to make soup) Synonyms: edè
    Sense id: en-ẹgusi-yo-noun-s~Lo6RdZ
  4. the soup made from the egusi seeds Synonyms: ọbẹ̀ ẹ̀gúsí, edè, ọbẹ̀ edè
    Sense id: en-ẹgusi-yo-noun--CSb3e2u
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: ẹ̀gúnsí, ègúsí Derived forms: ẹlẹ́gùúsí (english: someone who sells egusi, a melon farmer), òròró ẹ̀gúsí (english: melon oil)
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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "english": "someone who sells egusi, a melon farmer",
      "word": "ẹlẹ́gùúsí"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "english": "melon oil",
      "word": "òròró ẹ̀gúsí"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "egusi",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: egusi",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: egusi"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fon",
            "2": "goussi",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Fon: goussi",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Fon: goussi"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ha",
            "2": "àgushī",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Hausa: àgushī",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Hausa: àgushī"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ig",
            "2": "ègwusi",
            "3": "ègusi",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Igbo: ègwusi, ègusi",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Igbo: ègwusi, ègusi"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yo",
        "2": "ẹ̀gún",
        "3": "esí",
        "lit": "Thorns of the melon",
        "t1": "thorn",
        "t2": "melon, pumpkin"
      },
      "expansion": "ẹ̀gún (“thorn”) + esí (“melon, pumpkin”), literally “Thorns of the melon”",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Possibly from ẹ̀gún (“thorn”) + esí (“melon, pumpkin”), literally “Thorns of the melon”?",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ẹ̀gúsí",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yo",
        "2": "noun",
        "head": "ẹ̀gúsí",
        "head2": ""
      },
      "expansion": "ẹ̀gúsí",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "noun",
        "2": "ẹ̀gúsí",
        "3": ""
      },
      "expansion": "ẹ̀gúsí",
      "name": "yo-pos"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ẹ̀gúsí"
      },
      "expansion": "ẹ̀gúsí",
      "name": "yo-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Yoruba",
  "lang_code": "yo",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "72 2 16 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "63 1 22 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "59 3 24 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Yoruba entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "62 4 21 14",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "yo",
          "name": "Foods",
          "orig": "yo:Foods",
          "parents": [
            "Eating",
            "Food and drink",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "59 7 23 11",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "yo",
          "name": "Gourd family plants",
          "orig": "yo:Gourd family plants",
          "parents": [
            "Cucurbitales order plants",
            "Plants",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "62 5 21 12",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "yo",
          "name": "Plants",
          "orig": "yo:Plants",
          "parents": [
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The name of two species of melon",
        "Cucumeropsis Mannii"
      ],
      "id": "en-ẹgusi-yo-noun-nFxhuDmE",
      "links": [
        [
          "melon",
          "melon"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The name of two species of melon",
        "watermelon"
      ],
      "id": "en-ẹgusi-yo-noun-5z6kIVjw",
      "links": [
        [
          "melon",
          "melon"
        ],
        [
          "watermelon",
          "watermelon"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bàrà olómi"
        },
        {
          "word": "edè"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "egusi (The seeds of the egusi melon used to make soup)"
      ],
      "id": "en-ẹgusi-yo-noun-s~Lo6RdZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "egusi",
          "egusi"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "edè"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "the soup made from the egusi seeds"
      ],
      "id": "en-ẹgusi-yo-noun--CSb3e2u",
      "links": [
        [
          "soup",
          "soup"
        ],
        [
          "egusi",
          "egusi"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ọbẹ̀ ẹ̀gúsí"
        },
        {
          "word": "edè"
        },
        {
          "word": "ọbẹ̀ edè"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛ̀.ɡú.sí/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "ẹ̀gúnsí"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "ègúsí"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ẹgusi"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Yoruba compound terms",
    "Yoruba entries with incorrect language header",
    "Yoruba lemmas",
    "Yoruba nouns",
    "Yoruba terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "yo:Foods",
    "yo:Gourd family plants",
    "yo:Plants"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "someone who sells egusi, a melon farmer",
      "word": "ẹlẹ́gùúsí"
    },
    {
      "english": "melon oil",
      "word": "òròró ẹ̀gúsí"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "egusi",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: egusi",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: egusi"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fon",
            "2": "goussi",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Fon: goussi",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Fon: goussi"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ha",
            "2": "àgushī",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Hausa: àgushī",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Hausa: àgushī"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ig",
            "2": "ègwusi",
            "3": "ègusi",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Igbo: ègwusi, ègusi",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Igbo: ègwusi, ègusi"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yo",
        "2": "ẹ̀gún",
        "3": "esí",
        "lit": "Thorns of the melon",
        "t1": "thorn",
        "t2": "melon, pumpkin"
      },
      "expansion": "ẹ̀gún (“thorn”) + esí (“melon, pumpkin”), literally “Thorns of the melon”",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Possibly from ẹ̀gún (“thorn”) + esí (“melon, pumpkin”), literally “Thorns of the melon”?",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ẹ̀gúsí",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yo",
        "2": "noun",
        "head": "ẹ̀gúsí",
        "head2": ""
      },
      "expansion": "ẹ̀gúsí",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "noun",
        "2": "ẹ̀gúsí",
        "3": ""
      },
      "expansion": "ẹ̀gúsí",
      "name": "yo-pos"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ẹ̀gúsí"
      },
      "expansion": "ẹ̀gúsí",
      "name": "yo-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Yoruba",
  "lang_code": "yo",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The name of two species of melon",
        "Cucumeropsis Mannii"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "melon",
          "melon"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The name of two species of melon",
        "watermelon"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "melon",
          "melon"
        ],
        [
          "watermelon",
          "watermelon"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bàrà olómi"
        },
        {
          "word": "edè"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "egusi (The seeds of the egusi melon used to make soup)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "egusi",
          "egusi"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "edè"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "the soup made from the egusi seeds"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "soup",
          "soup"
        ],
        [
          "egusi",
          "egusi"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ọbẹ̀ ẹ̀gúsí"
        },
        {
          "word": "edè"
        },
        {
          "word": "ọbẹ̀ edè"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛ̀.ɡú.sí/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "ẹ̀gúnsí"
    },
    {
      "word": "ègúsí"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ẹgusi"
}

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