See also: Arun and a-rūn

Yoruba edit

Etymology 1 edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

àrùn

  1. disease, illness
    Synonyms: àìsàn, àmódi
    àrùn l'à á wò, a kì í wo ikúit a disease we cure, we do not cure death
  2. defect, inadequacy, problem
Derived terms edit

References edit

  • Awoyale, Yiwola (2008 December 19) Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0[1], number LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN

Etymology 2 edit

Yoruba numbers (edit)
50
 ←  4 5 6  → 
    Cardinal: àrún
    Counting: aárùn-ún
    Adjectival: márùn-ún
    Ordinal: karùn-ún
    Adverbial: ẹ̀ẹ̀marùn-ún
    Distributive: márùn-ún márùn-ún
    Collective: márààrùn-ún
    Fractional: ìdámárùn-ún

Likely from Proto-Yoruboid *ɛ̀-lʊ́, cognate with Igala ẹ̀lú, Olukumi ẹ̀rú, Westerman proposes a reconstruction to Proto-Atlantic-Congo *-nu- (five, hand)

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Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

àrún

  1.  five

Etymology 3 edit

Cognate with Olukumi ẹrun and Igbo ọ́nú, proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *ɛ́-lʊ̃

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Noun edit

arun

  1. (Owe, Ào) mouth