Akure

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See also: Akurẹ

English

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Etymology

From Yoruba Àkúrẹ́.

Proper noun

Akure

  1. The largest city and state capital of Ondo State, Nigeria.
    • 1963, Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease, Penguin Classics (2010), page 111:
      He had not even stopped for lunch at Akure which was the normal half-way house for travellers from Eastern Nigeria to Lagos, but had driven numbly, mile after mile, from morning till evening.

Hausa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔà.kú.ɽé/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key):
  • Audio (Nigeria):(file)

Proper noun

Akure ?

  1. Akure (the largest city and state capital of Ondo State, Nigeria)
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