"a" meaning in Yoruba

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Character

IPA: /a/ [phoneme], /á/ [letter, name] Forms: A [uppercase]
Head templates: {{head|yo|letter|lower case||upper case|A}} a (lower case, upper case A)
  1. The first letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called á and written in the Latin script. Tags: letter, lowercase
    Sense id: en-a-yo-character-9n~aNY1j Categories (other): Yoruba entries with incorrect language header, Yoruba pronouns Disambiguation of Yoruba entries with incorrect language header: 31 9 24 18 18 Disambiguation of Yoruba pronouns: 41 4 20 17 17
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /a/ [phoneme], /á/ [letter, name] Forms: á [canonical]
Head templates: {{head|yo|noun|head=á}} á
  1. The name of the Latin-script letter A. Categories (topical): Latin letter names
    Sense id: en-a-yo-noun-fr8LR4ci Related terms: lẹ́tà [Latin, letter], A [Latin, letter], a [Latin, letter], Á [Latin, letter], á [Latin, letter], , [Latin, letter], À [Latin, letter], à [Latin, letter], Ā [Latin, letter], ā [Latin, letter], B [Latin, letter], b [Latin, letter], D [Latin, letter], d [Latin, letter], E [Latin, letter], e [Latin, letter], É [Latin, letter], é [Latin, letter], È [Latin, letter], è [Latin, letter], Ē [Latin, letter], ē [Latin, letter], [Latin, letter], [Latin, letter], Ẹ́ [Latin, letter], ẹ́ [Latin, letter], Ẹ̀ [Latin, letter], ẹ̀ [Latin, letter], Ẹ̄ [Latin, letter], ẹ̄ [Latin, letter], F [Latin, letter], f [Latin, letter], G [Latin, letter], g [Latin, letter], Gb [Latin, letter], gb [Latin, letter], H [Latin, letter], h [Latin, letter], I [Latin, letter], i [Latin, letter], Í [Latin, letter], í [Latin, letter], Ì [Latin, letter], ì [Latin, letter], Ī [Latin, letter], ī [Latin, letter], J [Latin, letter], j [Latin, letter], K [Latin, letter], k [Latin, letter], L [Latin, letter], l [Latin, letter], M [Latin, letter], m [Latin, letter], [Latin, letter], ḿ [Latin, letter], [Latin, letter], [Latin, letter], [Latin, letter], [Latin, letter], N [Latin, letter], n [Latin, letter], Ń [Latin, letter], ń [Latin, letter], Ǹ [Latin, letter], ǹ [Latin, letter], N̄ [Latin, letter], n̄ [Latin, letter], O [Latin, letter], o [Latin, letter], Ó [Latin, letter], ó [Latin, letter], Ò [Latin, letter], ò [Latin, letter], Ō [Latin, letter], ō [Latin, letter], [Latin, letter], [Latin, letter], Ọ́ [Latin, letter], ọ́ [Latin, letter], Ọ̀ [Latin, letter], ọ̀ [Latin, letter], Ọ̄ [Latin, letter], ọ̄ [Latin, letter], P [Latin, letter], p [Latin, letter], R [Latin, letter], r [Latin, letter], S [Latin, letter], s [Latin, letter], [Latin, letter], [Latin, letter], T [Latin, letter], t [Latin, letter], U [Latin, letter], u [Latin, letter], Ú [Latin, letter], ú [Latin, letter], Ù [Latin, letter], ù [Latin, letter], Ū [Latin, letter], ū [Latin, letter], W [Latin, letter], w [Latin, letter], Y [Latin, letter], y [Latin, letter], lɛ́tà (Benin) [Latin, letter], Ɛ [Latin, letter], ɛ [Latin, letter], Kp [Latin, letter], kp [Latin, letter], Ɔ [Latin, letter], ɔ [Latin, letter], Sh [Latin, letter], sh [Latin, letter], lẹ́tà [Latin, letter-name], á [Latin, letter-name], bí [Latin, letter-name], dí [Latin, letter-name], é [Latin, letter-name], ẹ́ [Latin, letter-name], fí [Latin, letter-name], gí [Latin, letter-name], gbì [Latin, letter-name], hí [Latin, letter-name], í [Latin, letter-name], jí [Latin, letter-name], kí [Latin, letter-name], lí [Latin, letter-name], mí [Latin, letter-name], ní [Latin, letter-name], ó [Latin, letter-name], ọ́ [Latin, letter-name], pí [Latin, letter-name], rí [Latin, letter-name], sí [Latin, letter-name], ṣí [Latin, letter-name], tí [Latin, letter-name], ú [Latin, letter-name], wí [Latin, letter-name], yí [Latin, letter-name]
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Pronoun

IPA: /ā/
Etymology: Likely a clipping of àwa (“we (emphatic pronoun)”) Etymology templates: {{clipping|yo|àwa|nocap=1|t=we (emphatic pronoun)}} clipping of àwa (“we (emphatic pronoun)”) Head templates: {{head|yo|pronouns|head=a}} a
  1. we (first-person plural personal subject pronoun)
    Sense id: en-a-yo-pron-ZkUHzepw
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Pronoun

IPA: /ā/ (note: mid-tone), /á/ (note: high-tone)
Head templates: {{head|yo|pronouns|head=a}} a
  1. him, her, it (third-person singular non-honorific object pronoun following a monosyllabic verb with a high-tone /a/) Synonyms: wọn
    Sense id: en-a-yo-pron-0imM-5d6
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Pronoun

IPA: /ā/ (note: mid-tone), /á/ (note: high-tone) Forms: á [canonical]
Head templates: {{head|yo|pronouns|head=á}} á
  1. him, her, it (third-person singular non-honorific object pronoun following a monosyllabic verb with a low- or mid-tone /a/) Synonyms: wọn
    Sense id: en-a-yo-pron-DDG7spAd
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Download JSON data for a meaning in Yoruba (10.8kB)

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            "letter"
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            "letter"
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            "Latin",
            "letter"
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          "word": "F"
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          "word": "G"
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          "word": "H"
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          "word": "h"
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          "word": "I"
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          "word": "i"
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          "tags": [
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          "word": "Í"
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          "word": "í"
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          "word": "Ì"
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          "word": "ì"
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          "word": "Ī"
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          "tags": [
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            "letter"
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          "word": "ī"
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          "tags": [
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            "letter"
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          "word": "J"
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          "tags": [
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            "letter"
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          "word": "j"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "K"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "k"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "L"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "l"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "M"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "m"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "Ḿ"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "ḿ"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "M̀"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "m̀"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "M̄"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "m̄"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "N"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "n"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "Ń"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "ń"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "Ǹ"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "ǹ"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "N̄"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "n̄"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "O"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "o"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "Ó"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "ó"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "Ò"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "ò"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "Ō"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "ō"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "Ọ"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "ọ"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "Ọ́"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "ọ́"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "Ọ̀"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "ọ̀"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "Ọ̄"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "ọ̄"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "P"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "p"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "R"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "r"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "S"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "s"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "Ṣ"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "ṣ"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "T"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "t"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "U"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "u"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "Ú"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "ú"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "Ù"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "ù"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "Ū"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "ū"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "W"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "w"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "Y"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "y"
        },
        {
          "roman": "Benin",
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "lɛ́tà"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "Ɛ"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "ɛ"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "Kp"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "kp"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "Ɔ"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "ɔ"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "Sh"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter"
          ],
          "word": "sh"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter-name"
          ],
          "word": "lẹ́tà"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter-name"
          ],
          "word": "á"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter-name"
          ],
          "word": "bí"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter-name"
          ],
          "word": "dí"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter-name"
          ],
          "word": "é"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter-name"
          ],
          "word": "ẹ́"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter-name"
          ],
          "word": "fí"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter-name"
          ],
          "word": "gí"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter-name"
          ],
          "word": "gbì"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter-name"
          ],
          "word": "hí"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter-name"
          ],
          "word": "í"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter-name"
          ],
          "word": "jí"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter-name"
          ],
          "word": "kí"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter-name"
          ],
          "word": "lí"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter-name"
          ],
          "word": "mí"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter-name"
          ],
          "word": "ní"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter-name"
          ],
          "word": "ó"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter-name"
          ],
          "word": "ọ́"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter-name"
          ],
          "word": "pí"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter-name"
          ],
          "word": "rí"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter-name"
          ],
          "word": "sí"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter-name"
          ],
          "word": "ṣí"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter-name"
          ],
          "word": "tí"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter-name"
          ],
          "word": "ú"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter-name"
          ],
          "word": "wí"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Latin",
            "letter-name"
          ],
          "word": "yí"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/a/",
      "tags": [
        "phoneme"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/á/",
      "tags": [
        "letter",
        "name"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "a"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yo",
        "2": "àwa",
        "nocap": "1",
        "t": "we (emphatic pronoun)"
      },
      "expansion": "clipping of àwa (“we (emphatic pronoun)”)",
      "name": "clipping"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Likely a clipping of àwa (“we (emphatic pronoun)”)",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yo",
        "2": "pronouns",
        "head": "a"
      },
      "expansion": "a",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "yo",
  "pos": "pron",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "It's necessary that we prostrate for elders that we meet.",
          "text": "Ó yẹ kí a dọ̀bálẹ̀ fún áwọn àgbàlagbà tí a máa ń pàdé.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "We haven't seen them yet today, but we'll go to the bank tomorrow to talk to them.",
          "text": "A à tí ì rí wọn lónìí, ṣùgbọ́n a máa lọ sí báńkì lọ́la láti bá wọn sọ̀rọ̀.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "we (first-person plural personal subject pronoun)"
      ],
      "id": "en-a-yo-pron-ZkUHzepw",
      "links": [
        [
          "we",
          "we"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ā/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "a"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yo",
        "2": "pronouns",
        "head": "a"
      },
      "expansion": "a",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Yoruba",
  "lang_code": "yo",
  "pos": "pron",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "We'll talk to him next week.",
          "text": "Àá bá a sọ̀rọ̀ l'ọ́sẹ̀ t'ó ń bọ̀.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "him, her, it (third-person singular non-honorific object pronoun following a monosyllabic verb with a high-tone /a/)"
      ],
      "id": "en-a-yo-pron-0imM-5d6",
      "links": [
        [
          "him",
          "him"
        ],
        [
          "her",
          "her"
        ],
        [
          "it",
          "it"
        ],
        [
          "monosyllabic",
          "monosyllabic#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "wọn"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ā/",
      "note": "mid-tone"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/á/",
      "note": "high-tone"
    }
  ],
  "word": "a"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "á",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yo",
        "2": "pronouns",
        "head": "á"
      },
      "expansion": "á",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Yoruba",
  "lang_code": "yo",
  "pos": "pron",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "They've killed her!",
          "text": "Wọ́n ti pa á o!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Did you read it?",
          "text": "Ǹj'ó o kà á?",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "him, her, it (third-person singular non-honorific object pronoun following a monosyllabic verb with a low- or mid-tone /a/)"
      ],
      "id": "en-a-yo-pron-DDG7spAd",
      "links": [
        [
          "him",
          "him"
        ],
        [
          "her",
          "her"
        ],
        [
          "it",
          "it"
        ],
        [
          "monosyllabic",
          "monosyllabic#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "wọn"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ā/",
      "note": "mid-tone"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/á/",
      "note": "high-tone"
    }
  ],
  "word": "a"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Yoruba entries with incorrect language header",
    "Yoruba lemmas",
    "Yoruba letters",
    "Yoruba nouns",
    "Yoruba pronouns",
    "Yoruba terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Yoruba terms with redundant head parameter"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "A",
      "tags": [
        "uppercase"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yo",
        "2": "letter",
        "3": "lower case",
        "4": "",
        "5": "upper case",
        "6": "A"
      },
      "expansion": "a (lower case, upper case A)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Yoruba",
  "lang_code": "yo",
  "pos": "character",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The first letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called á and written in the Latin script."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "letter",
          "letter"
        ],
        [
          "alphabet",
          "alphabet"
        ],
        [
          "á",
          "a#Yoruba"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "letter",
        "lowercase"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/a/",
      "tags": [
        "phoneme"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/á/",
      "tags": [
        "letter",
        "name"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "a"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Yoruba entries with incorrect language header",
    "Yoruba lemmas",
    "Yoruba letters",
    "Yoruba nouns",
    "Yoruba pronouns",
    "Yoruba terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Yoruba terms with redundant head parameter"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "á",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yo",
        "2": "noun",
        "head": "á"
      },
      "expansion": "á",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Yoruba",
  "lang_code": "yo",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "lẹ́tà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "A"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "a"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Á"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "á"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": ","
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "À"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "à"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ā"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ā"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "B"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "b"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "D"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "d"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "E"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "e"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "É"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "é"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "È"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "è"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ē"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ē"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ẹ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ẹ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ẹ́"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ẹ́"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ẹ̀"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ẹ̀"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ẹ̄"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ẹ̄"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "F"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "f"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "G"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "g"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Gb"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "gb"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "H"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "h"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "I"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "i"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Í"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "í"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ì"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ì"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ī"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ī"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "J"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "j"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "K"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "k"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "L"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "l"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "M"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "m"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ḿ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ḿ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "M̀"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "m̀"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "M̄"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "m̄"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "N"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "n"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ń"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ń"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ǹ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ǹ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "N̄"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "n̄"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "O"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "o"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ó"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ó"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ò"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ò"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ō"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ō"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ọ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ọ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ọ́"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ọ́"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ọ̀"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ọ̀"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ọ̄"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ọ̄"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "P"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "p"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "R"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "r"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "S"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "s"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ṣ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ṣ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "T"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "t"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "U"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "u"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ù"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ù"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ū"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ū"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "W"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "w"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Y"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "y"
    },
    {
      "roman": "Benin",
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "lɛ́tà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ɛ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ɛ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Kp"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "kp"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Ɔ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "ɔ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "Sh"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter"
      ],
      "word": "sh"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "lẹ́tà"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "á"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "bí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "dí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "é"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "ẹ́"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "fí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "gí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "gbì"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "hí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "í"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "jí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "kí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "lí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "mí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "ní"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "ó"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "ọ́"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "pí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "rí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "sí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "ṣí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "tí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "ú"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "wí"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "letter-name"
      ],
      "word": "yí"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "yo:Latin letter names"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The name of the Latin-script letter A."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "A",
          "A#Yoruba"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/a/",
      "tags": [
        "phoneme"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/á/",
      "tags": [
        "letter",
        "name"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "a"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Yoruba clippings",
    "Yoruba entries with incorrect language header",
    "Yoruba lemmas",
    "Yoruba pronouns",
    "Yoruba terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Yoruba terms with redundant head parameter"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yo",
        "2": "àwa",
        "nocap": "1",
        "t": "we (emphatic pronoun)"
      },
      "expansion": "clipping of àwa (“we (emphatic pronoun)”)",
      "name": "clipping"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Likely a clipping of àwa (“we (emphatic pronoun)”)",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yo",
        "2": "pronouns",
        "head": "a"
      },
      "expansion": "a",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Yoruba",
  "lang_code": "yo",
  "pos": "pron",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Yoruba terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "It's necessary that we prostrate for elders that we meet.",
          "text": "Ó yẹ kí a dọ̀bálẹ̀ fún áwọn àgbàlagbà tí a máa ń pàdé.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "We haven't seen them yet today, but we'll go to the bank tomorrow to talk to them.",
          "text": "A à tí ì rí wọn lónìí, ṣùgbọ́n a máa lọ sí báńkì lọ́la láti bá wọn sọ̀rọ̀.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "we (first-person plural personal subject pronoun)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "we",
          "we"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ā/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "a"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Yoruba entries with incorrect language header",
    "Yoruba lemmas",
    "Yoruba pronouns",
    "Yoruba terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Yoruba terms with redundant head parameter"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yo",
        "2": "pronouns",
        "head": "a"
      },
      "expansion": "a",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Yoruba",
  "lang_code": "yo",
  "pos": "pron",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Yoruba terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "We'll talk to him next week.",
          "text": "Àá bá a sọ̀rọ̀ l'ọ́sẹ̀ t'ó ń bọ̀.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "him, her, it (third-person singular non-honorific object pronoun following a monosyllabic verb with a high-tone /a/)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "him",
          "him"
        ],
        [
          "her",
          "her"
        ],
        [
          "it",
          "it"
        ],
        [
          "monosyllabic",
          "monosyllabic#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "wọn"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ā/",
      "note": "mid-tone"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/á/",
      "note": "high-tone"
    }
  ],
  "word": "a"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Yoruba entries with incorrect language header",
    "Yoruba lemmas",
    "Yoruba pronouns",
    "Yoruba terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Yoruba terms with redundant head parameter"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 3,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "á",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yo",
        "2": "pronouns",
        "head": "á"
      },
      "expansion": "á",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Yoruba",
  "lang_code": "yo",
  "pos": "pron",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Yoruba terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "They've killed her!",
          "text": "Wọ́n ti pa á o!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Did you read it?",
          "text": "Ǹj'ó o kà á?",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "him, her, it (third-person singular non-honorific object pronoun following a monosyllabic verb with a low- or mid-tone /a/)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "him",
          "him"
        ],
        [
          "her",
          "her"
        ],
        [
          "it",
          "it"
        ],
        [
          "monosyllabic",
          "monosyllabic#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "wọn"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ā/",
      "note": "mid-tone"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/á/",
      "note": "high-tone"
    }
  ],
  "word": "a"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Yoruba dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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