eré
noun
/ē.ɾé/
Definitions
- physical play
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game
Ẹ kúrò nídìí ìdò, eré ọmọdé ni Stop playing with the ido seeds, it's a child's game
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race, run
Eré tí ajá fogún ọdún sá; ìrìn fàájì ni fẹ́ṣin The race that took the dog twenty years to run is a leisurely stroll for the horse.Similar wordseré ìje
- drama, musical, play
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television show, movie, film
Similar wordsfíìmùsinimánoun
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joke, fun
mo ń ṣe eré ni I am only jokingSimilar wordsàwàdànounàpárá
Etymology
Compare with Igala úlé
Used in
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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.
erêBrazilian Portuguese
Source: Wiktionary · etymology 4,
where this word is spelled “ere”.
Reference:
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