aoro
Tagalog
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish ahorro (“savings”), from horro (“free”), from Arabic حُرّ (ḥurr, “free, noble, virtuous”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔaˈoɾo/ [ʔɐˈoː.ɾo]
- Rhymes: -oɾo
- Syllabification: a‧o‧ro
Noun
aoro (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜏᜓᜇᜓ)
Related terms
See also
Further reading
- Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 62
- Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 19
West Makian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈa.o.ro/
Noun
aoro
- a frog
References
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[1], Pacific linguistics (as áoro)
Yoruba
Alternative forms
- àwòrò
- àghòrò
Etymology
From Proto-Yoruba *à-ɣòrò, from Proto-Edekiri *à-ɣòrò, equivalent to à- (“nominalizing prefix”) + ò (“to look”) + rò (“to tell”), literally “The one who looks [at what the orisha say in obì divination] and then tells”
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /à.ò.ɾò/
Noun
àòrò
- (Ekiti) a male priest, often the chief priest of a specific orisha or deity; see àòrò Ògún
- Synonym: aláòrò
Derived terms
- àòrò Ògún
- àòrò Ọbànị̀fọ̀n
- àòrò Ọ̀sanyìn