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Yoruba
Etymology
From oní- (“owner of”) + igbá (“calabash”) + méjì (“two”), literally “Bearer of two calabashes”
- The picture painted by this term is of someone holding a calabash to contain vomit and another for stool; the two symptoms of cholera. [1]
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ō.nĩ́.ɡ͡bá.mé.d͡ʒì/
Noun
onígbáméjì
- cholera
- Synonyms: kọ́lẹ́rà, àrùn onígbáméjì
References
- ^ Yusuff, Ayo (2010) Yoruba Language Engineering: A Lexical Morphology Perspective, →ISBN