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Igbo
Pronunciation
Noun
ndị (singular onye)
- people, nation
- ndị Hausa ― Hausa people
- those (of), those (who)
- ndị oru ― riverine people, people of the marshes
- ndị ngo ― those who take bribes
- used to form plurals of nouns referring to people
- ndị + mmadụ (“person”) → ndị mmadụ (“people”)
- forms the names of settlements among the Aro
- ndị + okoro (“young man”) → Ndịokoro (“(name of a village in Abia State)”)
Synonyms
- (forming placenames): ụmụ
Further reading
- Michael J. C. Echeruo (2001) “ndï”, in Igbo-English Dictionary: A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Igbo Language with an English-Igbo Index, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria: Longman Nigeria Plc, →ISBN, page 105