The first letter of the Nupe alphabet
Nupe Dictionary — Nigeria
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Nupe (Nigeria)
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423 words and 12 phrases — 435 entries in total.
Newest Nupe words
- nyizagi — woman
- tsùkùn — stick
- tsúkùn — bone
- dàgwa — to push (with one's hand)
- wúgwa — to wave (one's hand)
- cigbèjin — medicine making
- swàkwà — dirty
- kíǹkèrè — scorpion
- ewùn — anger
- mátsan — to laugh
- cigbèjinci — doctor
- jinjin — doing
Words (423)
A (14)
completed action marker
not
prayer
cannon
The Akoko sub-group of Yoruba
African gray parrot
clerk
character
onion
but
advantage
already
secret
B (17)
His Majesty
Man
gazelle
waterbuck
loincloth
leg
Person from Bida
gun
gun maker
fowl; poultry (in particular) chicken
rooster
hen
bantam chicken
dusky moorhen
plural of bishe
bread
albino person
C (11)
gravel
change
rice
then
tree
medicine
illicit drug
medicine making
doctor
love
church
D (31)
The fourth letter of the Nupe alphabet
Mona monkey
elephant
to push (with one's hand)
cat
relative
tamarind fruit
to walk
to have
fly
to plan
horse
bicycle
horse rider
to boil
to fall
potato
pot
The fifth letter of the Nupe alphabet
Distichodus rostratus
child
to play
to plant
to play
cousin
market
vagina
merchant
to mince
to flash
E (116)
Marks the imperfective aspect
female prostitute
diviner
patas monkey
breast
The Asu people
pumpkin
faeces
kola nut
knife
lawyer
yam
yam
plural of eci
spying
fruit bat
sea catfish
taxes
smelting furnace
Benue River
seed
game
spider
slap (in the face)
wind
day
word
wisdom; sense
Igbo
goodness
child
ear drum
key
African arowana
inheritance
hand
Mormyrops
blood
Lagos
cough
shoulder
arrow
height
widow
pillar
war
corpse
warrior
corn pap
sleep
character
kob antelope
trunk
slate
debt
mosquito
sorrel
fox
House
fat
compound
palm oil
argument
noise
baobab fruit
fire
artistic design
goat
cattle
singer
farmer
egusi
person with a disability who cannot walk
stool
table
salt
bird's nest
jackal
dog
otter
sesame
breath
tomorrow
pain
history
storyteller
oar
head
laugh
King
cobra
kick
moon
work
pestle
worker
calabash
snake
money
cloth
rich person
bitter kola
anger
canoe
Friend
Yoruba people
thing
drum
food
eye
nose
maize
Person
plural of ezà
catfish
language
F (9)
The seventh letter of the Nupe alphabet
small whistle
Fula
leaf; herb
lamp
bother
to wash
hat
African catfish
G (23)
The eighth letter of the Nupe alphabet
to exceed
lie
liar
Igala people
The ninth letter of the Nupe alphabet
African palmyra palm
duck
debt
to moan
to ask a question
to rub
barking
to be good
to eat
goodness
eating
to inherit
vulture
to battle
bamboo
groundnut
chameleon
H (1)
The tenth letter of the Nupe alphabet
I (2)
The eleventh letter of the Nupe alphabet
faith
J (8)
The twelfth letter of the Nupe alphabet
wooden turning stick
rice
disorderly
shaky
to do
elderly person
doing
K (39)
The thirteenth letter of the Nupe alphabet
kafir
strong person
trumpet
farm
clove
Kano City
crab
compound wall
akara
rabbit
house
umbrella
Hausa person
Hausaland
scorpion
heap
shea tree (Vitellaria paradoxa)
navel
neck
The fourteenth letter of the Nupe alphabet
porcupine
pins and needles
to cough
bottle
bridge
corn stalk
sugarcane
ladle
partridge
cheapness
to tell a story
to be plentiful
shelf
to be enough
forest
crow
a species of large water frog
donkey
L (15)
The fifteenth letter of the Nupe alphabet
news
health
farm
person from a rural area
gecko
driving wind
orange
grapefruit
to work
onion sprout
onion
pigeon
cotton
moinmoin
M (19)
The sixteenth letter of the Nupe alphabet
hunger
hungry person
obscure snakehead
Mecca
school
hyena
Mokwa (a town in Niger, Nigeria)
Person from Makwa
mallam
pitcher
car
driver
drivers
to laugh
maternal uncle
baobab tree
kingdom
cat
N (23)
The seventeenth letter of the Nupe alphabet
Nigeria
Nigerian person
body
leather bag
leopard
domesticated animals
cattle
smoke
tear gas
father
ruler of Makwa
paternal uncle
mother
maternal aunt
grandmother
The Nupe ethnic group
Nupe person
Nupe person
elder
water
swimmer
woman
O (2)
The eighteenth letter of the Nupe alphabet
police officer
P (5)
The nineteenth letter of the Nupe alphabet
mountain
hill
person from Patigi
to burn
R (4)
The twentieth letter of the Nupe alphabet
cassava
turban
mould
S (12)
The twenty-first letter of the Nupe alphabet
midnight
prayer, salat
to wake up
The twenty-second letter of the Nupe alphabet
tea
guineafowl
spoon
God
clay building
waxbill
dirty
T (31)
The twenty-third letter of the Nupe alphabet
ink
paper
rock
poor person
to chatter
kindness
plate
eba
kindness
kindness
comb
turkey
The twenty-fourth letter of the Nupe alphabet
half sibling
to be dexterous
the day before yesterday
to die
bone
stick
bitterleaf
measure
death
yesterday
gele
to break
to fan
star
copper
ear
zinc
U (1)
The twenty-fifth letter of the Nupe alphabet
V (2)
The twenty-sixth letter of the Nupe alphabet
knee
W (3)
The twenty-seventh letter of the Nupe alphabet
to wave (one's hand)
fog
Y (25)
The twenty-eighth letter of the Nupe alphabet
banana
plantain
A Yoruba sub-group in Kogi State, Nigeria.
poverty
Capsicum frutescens (chili pepper)
Capsicum annuum
to trust
food
bride
senior
sibling
brother
sister
road
cold
fish
tooth
fisherman
palm fruit
coconut palm
oil palm
ackee tree
today
Earth
Z (7)
The twenty-ninth letter of the Nupe alphabet
person
The thirtieth letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.
veranda
civet musk
to finish
mat
# (3)
diminutive suffix
augmentative suffix
plural suffix
Phrases (12)
Excuse me / Sorry
Thank you / Well done
Hello
Good evening
I am fine / Peace
Welcome
Thank you
Hello
Good morning
Good evening
Good afternoon
Good morning