ajao

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Yoruba

Àjàò

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Etymology

Perhaps from à- +‎ jà +‎ wò, its ability to fly often has it mistaken for a bird or the bat among Yoruba speakers

Pronunciation

Noun

àjàò

  1. rodents known as anomalures, (specifically) two species of rodent in genus Anomalurus that occur in Nigeria, Beecroft's flying squirrel (Anomalurus beecrofti) and Lord Derby's scaly-tailed squirrel (Anomalurus derbianus), not closely related to the better-known group of flying squirrels of the Sciuridae (squirrel) family
    Synonyms: àlàò, ẹlẹ́mọ̀ọ́
    Àjàò, kò ṣe eku kò ṣe ẹyẹ ― The flying mammal, it's not a rat and yet it's not a bird

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