ireke

Yoruba

Alternative forms

  • erèkè (Owé)
  • èrèkè (Eastern Àkókó)
  • ìèké (Oǹdó)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ì.ɾè.ké/

Noun

ìrèké

  1. sugarcane
    • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎[1], number LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:
      A kì í bá kíkan láàrin ìrèké
      We do not find sourness inside a sugarcane (proverb on sugar cane as symbolizing sweetness).

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Hausa: ràkē
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