ẹlẹ́dẹ̀
noun
/ɛ̄.lɛ́.dɛ̀/
lẹ́dẹ̀ (alternative)
Definitions
- pig, swine
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dirty person
Similar wordsọ̀bùnnoun 3 entries are spelled “ọ̀bùn”, and the list this came from doesn't say which one is meant — we've linked to the first. ọ̀bùn dirty person ọ̀bùn market ọ̀bọ̀n market
Etymology
From oní- (“one who has”) + ẹ̀- (“nominalizing prefix”) + dẹ̀ (“to be soft”), literally “one who has soft (meat or skin)”
Component words
Used in
abo ẹlẹ́dẹ̀ẹlẹ́dẹ̀-igbóẹlẹ́dẹ̀-odòẹlẹ́lẹ́dẹ̀ọgbà ẹlẹ́dẹ̀ọmọ-ẹlẹ́dẹ̀àfọ̀ ẹlẹ́dẹ̀àgbẹ̀ ẹlẹ́dẹ̀
Possibly derived from
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.
Writing that word up on Wiktionary settles it. How to help.
edénoun
“edé” lists “elédé” as a word built from it. No word here is spelled that way, so this page was matched to it by ignoring underdots. It may be a misspelling, or “elédé” may be a word nobody has written up yet.
edé
shrimp, prawn, small lobster
Words in other languages from this one
These are words in other languages that came from this Yorùbá word, mostly through trade, the Atlantic slave trade, and contact with neighbouring languages.
They are not translations. A word here means what it means in its own language, which may have drifted a long way from the Yorùbá it started as.
àladḕHausa
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “ẹlẹdẹ”.
Reference:
en-ẹlẹdẹ-yo-noun-0877-FoC