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"word": "ilé ẹ̀kọ́"
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"english": "to build a house",
"word": "kọ́lé"
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],
"etymology_number": 6,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ife",
"2": "kɔ"
},
"expansion": "Ifè kɔ",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Cognates include Ifè kɔ",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "yo",
"2": "verb",
"head": "kọ",
"head2": ""
},
"expansion": "kọ",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "verb",
"2": "kọ"
},
"expansion": "kọ",
"name": "yo-pos"
}
],
"lang": "Yoruba",
"lang_code": "yo",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Yoruba terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "I stubbed my toe on that rock",
"text": "Mo fẹsẹ̀ kọ òkúta yẹn",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to stub, strike, hit"
],
"links": [
[
"stub",
"stub"
],
[
"strike",
"strike"
],
[
"hit",
"hit"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/kɔ̄/"
}
],
"word": "kọ"
}
{
"categories": [
"Yoruba entries with incorrect language header",
"Yoruba lemmas",
"Yoruba terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Yoruba terms with redundant head parameter",
"Yoruba verbs"
],
"derived": [
{
"english": "to sing",
"word": "kọrin"
}
],
"etymology_number": 7,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ife",
"2": "kɔ"
},
"expansion": "Ifè kɔ",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Cognates include Ifè kɔ",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "yo",
"2": "verb",
"head": "kọ",
"head2": ""
},
"expansion": "kọ",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "verb",
"2": "kọ"
},
"expansion": "kọ",
"name": "yo-pos"
}
],
"lang": "Yoruba",
"lang_code": "yo",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Yoruba terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "I recite the song",
"text": "Orin náà ni mo kọ",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to recite"
],
"links": [
[
"recite",
"recite"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/kɔ̄/"
}
],
"word": "kọ"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Yoruba dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). 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.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.