agogo

From Portuguese agogô, from Yoruba agogo (“bell”).

agogo (plural agogos)

1. An agogo bell, a bell used in Yoruba and Brazilian music and typically played in pairs

agogo (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of à gogo.

From Yoruba agogo, cognate with Hausa àgōgo.

• IPA^(key): /ā.ɡō.ɡō/

agogo (y-class, plural agogonu, focus agogowa, plural focus agogona)

1. watch; clock
   • 2021 February 17, Pierre Barassounon, Sanu Biɔ, Thébault Biɔ, Léonard Goragui, Jean Soutar, Dictionnaire Baatonum, SIL International, page 3:

     Nɛn agogo ya sankira

     My watch is broken

• Barassounon, Pierre, Biɔ, Sanu, Biɔ, Thébault, Goragui, Léonard, Soutar, Jean (17 February 2021) Dictionnaire Baatonum‎^[1], Philadelphia: SIL International

• IPA^(key): /aˈɡó.ɡo/, /aˈɡo.ɡo/

agógo class 2 or agogo class 2

1. plural of gogo

Ultimately from Yoruba agogo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑɡoɡo/, [ˈɑ̝ɡo̞ɡo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑɡoɡo
• Syllabification^(key): a‧go‧go
• Hyphenation^(key): ago‧go

agogo

1. (music) agogo (instrument)

• ago'go

From Yoruba agogo (“a bell, a musical instrument in the shape of a cowbell”)

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡo.ʔɡo/

agogo

1. cowbell

• Lorenzo Dow Turner, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1969)

Borrowed from Yoruba agogo.

• IPA^(key): /ʔà.ɡóː.ɡó/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔà.ɡʷóː.ɡʷó]

• Audio:

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àgōgo m (plural àgṑgai or agōgunā̀, possessed form àgōgon)

1. clock, watch

• a go go

From English à gogo.

• IPA^(key): [a.ɡo.ɡo]

  • Audio (Malaysia):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɡo, -o
• Hyphenation: a‧go‧go

agogo (Jawi spelling اݢوݢو, plural agogo-agogo)

1. (music) go-go

• “agogo” in Kamus Dewan Perdana, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2021, →ISBN, page 1.

• “agogo” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• aago
• aogo (Ijesha, Ekiti)

Possibly onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /ā.ɡō.ɡō/

agogo

1. (music) bell, gong
2. clock, timepiece

• → Baatonum: agogo
• → Hausa: àgōgo
• → Edo: ẹgogo
• → Portuguese: agogô
  • → English: agogo
  • → Japanese: アゴゴ (agogo)
  • → Russian: агого (agogo)
• → Spanish: agogó
• → Mandarin: 阿哥哥 (āgēgē)

From à- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ gógó (“an ideophone describing something that is sharp and pointed”).

• IPA^(key): /à.ɡó.ɡó/

àgógó

1. bird beak

   Synonyms: ẹnu-ẹyẹ, àgógónu, ìkó

• IPA^(key): /à.ɡò.ɡō/

àgògo

1. a type of hairstyle worn by priestesses of the orisha; (in particular) worn by ọlọ́ṣun, ọlọ́ya, ìyálórìṣà and oníyemọja priestesses