rí
verb
/ɾí/
Definitions
-
to see, to find
Bí ojú bá rí, ẹnu a dákẹ́. One should not say everything they see.Mo rí ajá rẹ níjẹrin. I saw your dog three days ago.Ǹjẹ́ ẹ ti rí ọkọ̀ yín? Have you found your car?
-
to look like
Báwo l'ó ṣé ń rí? What does it usually look like?
Other entries with this spelling
Wiktionary records 3 entries spelled “rí”. You're reading one of them; here are the others.
Etymology
From Proto-Yoruboid *lí, cognate with Igala lí.
Dialectal synonyms “to see” 53 varieties
Southeast Yoruba
- Ìdóàní
- rí
- Ìdànrè (Ùdànè, Ùdànrè)
- í
- Ìjẹ̀bú Òde
- rí
- Ẹ̀pẹ́
- rí
- Ìkòròdú
- rí
- Ṣágámù
- rí
- Òkìtìpupa
- rí
- Mahin
- rí
- Oǹdó
- í
- Usẹn
- rí
Ìtsẹkírì
- Ìwẹrẹ
- rí
Central Yoruba
- Àdó Èkìtì
- rí
- Àkúrẹ́
- rí
- Ọ̀tùn Èkìtì
- rí
- Ilé Ifẹ̀ (Ulé Ufẹ̀)
- rí
- Iléṣà (Uléṣà)
- rí
Northwest Yoruba
- Èbúté Mẹ́tà
- rí
- Abẹ́òkúta
- rí
- Ìjàká
- rí
- Èkó
- rí
- Ìbàdàn
- rí
- Igbó Òrà
- rí
- Òṣogbo (Òsogbo)
- rí
- Ìlá Ọ̀ràngún
- rí
- Ìfẹ́lódùn LGA
- rí
- Ìrẹ́pọ̀dùn LGA
- rí
- Ìsin LGA
- rí
- Ìlọrin
- rí
- Òtù
- rí
- Ìwéré Ilé
- rí
- Òkèhò
- rí
- Ìsẹ́yìn
- rí
- Ṣakí
- rí
- Tedé
- rí
- Ìgbẹ́tì
- rí
- Ọ̀yọ́
- rí
- Nàìjíríà
- rí
- Bɛ̀nɛ̀
- rí
Northeast Yoruba/Okun
- Ìsánlú Ìtẹ̀dó
- rí
- Kabba
- rí
Ede languages/Southwest Yoruba
- Sokode
- rí
- Baàtɛ
- rí
- Igbó Ìdàácà (Dasa Zunmɛ̀)
- rí
- Onigbolo
- rí
- Akpáré
- rí
- Atakpamɛ
- rí
- Boko
- rí
- Moretan
- rí
- Tchetti (Tsɛti, Cɛti)
- rí
- Awotébi
- lí
- Partago
- rí
- Kambole
- í
- Manigri
- í
Used in
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Possibly used in
We are not certain about these, for one of two reasons.
Wiktionary says some of them were built from a word spelled like this one, without saying which meaning, so we show each under every meaning it could have come from.
The rest are spelled a little differently from anything here — a tone mark or an underdot apart — so we cannot tell a misspelling of this word from a word that has no page yet.
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Source: Wiktionary · etymology 2,
where this word is spelled “ri”.
Reference:
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