ajao pụpa

Yoruba

Etymology

From àjàò (“anomalure, flying squirrel”) +‎ pụpa (“to be red”), literally “The red flying squirrel”, compare with àjàò dídú (“the black flying squirrel”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /à.d͡ʒà.ò k͡pʊ̄.k͡pā/

Noun

àjàò pụpa

  1. (Àkúrẹ́)
    Synonym: àjàò àjọ̀sọ́n (“a type of rodent known as the Beecroft's flying squirrel”)

Coordinate terms

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.