dúdú
verb
/dú.dú/
dídú (alternative), dídún (alternative)
Definitions
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to be black, dark, deep green or deep blue
Ẹyẹ yẹn dúdú That bird is blackÓ ti dúdú sí i nítorí oòrùn tó pa á It has darkened due to sun damageSimilar wordsdúverb 2 entries are spelled “dú”, and the list this came from doesn't say which one is meant — we've linked to the first. dú to be black, to be dark dú to bleedUsed in
Other entries with this spelling
Wiktionary records 3 entries spelled “dúdú”. You're reading one of them; here are the others.
Etymology
From dídú, partial reduplication of dú (“to be black or dark”).
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Each of these pages lists a word as built from it, spelled a little differently from this one — a different tone mark, or an underdot this word doesn't have.
Tone and underdots are what tell two Yorùbá words apart, so we can't say whether the other page meant this word and mistyped it, or meant a word that has no page here yet.
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dùnverb
“dùn” lists “dídùn” as a word built from it. No word here is spelled that way, so this page was matched to it by ignoring tone marks. It may be a misspelling, or “dídùn” may be a word nobody has written up yet.
dùn
to be sweet, to be pleasant
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “dudu”.
Reference:
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