apola

Northern Sotho

Etymology

Borrowed from English apple.

Noun

apola

1. apple

Yoruba

Etymology

The sense "phrase" was coined by Yoruba Metalanguage (Èdè-ìperí Yorùbá)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /à.k͡pó.là/

Noun

àpólà

1. (originally) wood splinter
2. (linguistics, by extension) phrase [from 1984]

References

• Ẹgbẹ́-Onímọ̀-Èdè-Yorùbá (Yoruba Studies Association of Nigeria) (1984) Ayọ Bamgboṣe, editor, Yoruba Metalanguage (Èdè-ìperí Yorùbá): A Glossary of English-Yoruba Technical Terms in Language, Literature, and Methodology, volume 1, Nigeria Educational Research Council