ọkẹ

See also: Ọkẹ

Yoruba

Yoruba numbers ^(edit)

←  10,000	←  19,000	20,000	100,000  →
		2,000[a], [b]
Cardinal: ọ̀kẹ́, ẹgbàawàá     Counting: ọ̀kẹ́ kan, ẹgbàawàá     Adjectival: ọ̀kẹ́ kan, ẹgbàawàá     Ordinal: ẹgbàawàá

Etymology

Numeral sense derived from noun sense, as one ọ̀kẹ́ (bag), contained around twenty thousand cowries.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̀.kɛ́/

Numeral

ọ̀kẹ́

1. twenty thousand

Derived terms

• àádọ́ta ọ̀kẹ́ (“one million”)

 

Noun

ọ̀kẹ́

1. a bag, or sac, usually containing cowries
2. (by extension, anatomy) amniotic sac

Derived terms

• Ọ̀kẹ́ (“Yoruba name, given to a child born with its amniotic sac intact via a en-caul birth”)