Yoruba

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Àjàò

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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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 ẹyẹThe flying mammal, it's not a rat and yet it's not a bird

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