obo

obo

1. Alternative form of ovoo (“Mongolian cairn”)

• Bayan Obo

obo

1. (colloquial) Alternative letter-case form of OBO: or best offer

• Boo, OOB, OoB, boo

obo

1. water
2. liquid
3. tide

• koko obo

• Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67 (confirms this form is used in the Bamu, Pirupiru, and Sisiame dialects)
• Chris and Phil Carr, Bamu Dictionary (2012)

obo

1. water

• Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67
• Oroa buka: Kerewo wade via bohoboho wade = A book of stories in Kerewo and English (2010), first edition (SIL)

obo

1. woman

• Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 15
• Kerewo Organised Phonology Data

obo (plural oboye)

1. lung

Borrowed from English oboe.

obo m (genitive singular obo, plural oboghyn)

1. oboe

obo

1. water

• Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67

obo

1. (Gope, Urama) water

• o'obó (Arigibi)
• o'bó (Gibaio)

• Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67

obo m (definite singular oboen, indefinite plural oboer, definite plural oboene)

1. oboe

obo m (definite singular oboen, indefinite plural oboar, definite plural oboane)

1. oboe

Inherited from Latin albus (“white”), but only remaining as an element in some toponyms/placenames. Doublet of albo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈobo/ [ˈo.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -obo
• Syllabification: o‧bo

obo (feminine oba, masculine plural obos, feminine plural obas)

1. (obsolete) white

   Synonym: blanco

• “obo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from English oboe.

• Hyphenation: o‧bo
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔobo/, [ˈʔo.bo]

obo

1. oboe

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [ôːɓo]

ôbo

1. that; class 14 distal demonstrative.

From Proto-Yoruboid *ò-bò, perhaps from ò- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ bò (“to cover”), literally “That which covers”, which is said to come from a verb referring to a woman's sexual position during sex. Compare with dó (“to have sex”) and abo (“female”)

• IPA^(key): /ò.bò/

òbò

1. (vulgar) vagina

   Synonyms: abẹ́, ẹ̀lẹ̀, ojú-ara

• okó

• obìnrin (“woman”)

• Adebayo, Taofeeq SOME DIACHRONIC CHANGES IN YORUBA GRAMMAR , 2020