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<strong>Uyo</strong>–Bielefeld <strong>Ibibio</strong> <strong>Dictionary</strong> (Urua, Ekpenyong, Gibbon)<br />

udooro /udooro/ [udooro] LLLL n: gain, profit (var. Udoro).<br />

udop /udop/ [udop] HH n: weight.<br />

udo.sen /ud�sen/ [udOsen] LHD n: fouth-born son.<br />

udo.t /ud�t/ [udOt] HH n: sliminess, stickiness; a viscous secretion.<br />

udu /udu/ [udu] HF n: strength.<br />

udua /udua/ [udua] HF n: market, week (see market days below); price, value, purchase<br />

(var. urua).<br />

udua inam /udua inam/ [udua inam] LLL HL n: the initiation ceremony for the inam<br />

society cf udua.<br />

uduan - /udua�/ [uduaN] HHF n: feaces.<br />

ud k /ud k/ [udVk] HF n: pity, sympathy, consideration.<br />

ud k /ud k/ [udVk] HH n: rope.<br />

ud k /ud k/ [udVk] HH n: kind, sort, type; lineage.<br />

ud n - /ud �/ [udVN] HF n: mortar.<br />

uduuk /uduuk/ [uduuk] HHH n: kind, sort, type; lineage (var. oduuk).<br />

uduut /uduut/ [uduut] HHH n: country, nation, tribe, clan, group of people esp foreigners;<br />

a group who follow a leader; household; humanity, human nature.<br />

ufa /ufa/ [ufa] HH aj : new.<br />

ufia /ufia/ [ufia] LHH n: the fifth-born son.<br />

ufia /ufia/ [ufia] LHH n: slap.<br />

ufia /ufia/ [ufia] LHH n: right (direction).<br />

ufiak /ufiak/ [ufiak] HH n: weavil.<br />

ufiak ufiak /ufiak ufiak/ [ufiak ufiak] HH HH aj : weavil infested.<br />

ufiak ufiak /ufiak ufiak/ [ufiak ufiak] LLL HHL n: fourth-born son.<br />

ufien /ufien/ [ufien] LHH n: left (direction) (var. ufion, ufiin).<br />

ufiet /ufiet/ [ufiet] HHL n: byword, slang phrase, sc<strong>and</strong>al (var. ufiot, ufiit).<br />

ufiin /ufiin/ [ufiin] LHH n: left (direction) (var. ufion, ufien).<br />

ufiit /ufiit/ [ufiit] HHL n: byword, slang phrase, sc<strong>and</strong>al.<br />

ufi.k /uf�k/ [ufIk] HH n: oppression.<br />

ufi.k /uf�k/ [ufIk] HF n: smell, odour.<br />

ufi.n /uf�n/ [ufIn] HF n: slavery (var. ufVn).<br />

ufiom /ufiom/ [ufiom] HHH n: a whistle (var. ifiom, ifiim).<br />

ufion /ufion/ [ufion] LHH n: left (direction) (var. ufien, ufiin).<br />

ufiot /ufiot/ [ufiot] LHH n: byword, slang phrase, sc<strong>and</strong>al.<br />

ufo.fo.p /uf�f�p/ [ufOfOp] LHH n, aj : illicit gin.<br />

ufo.k /uf�k/ [ufOk] HF n: house.<br />

ufoogho /ufoo�o/ [ufooRo] LHHH aj : empty (as a fruit with no seed, a ball with no<br />

air, a big fat person with no strength).<br />

ufo.o.t /uf��t/ [ufOOt] LHH n: middle (var. ufuOt, ufuOOt).<br />

ufuo.o.t /ufu��t/ [ufuOOt] LHHH n: middle.<br />

ufuo.t /ufu�t/ [ufuOt] LHH n: middle.<br />

ufuut /ufuut/ [ufuut] HDH n, aj : the sharpened part of a knife or machete.<br />

uka /uka/ [uka] LL n: your mother.<br />

ukaan - edop /ukaa�edop/ [ukaaN edop] LLL HL n: a kind of antelope, giant antelope.<br />

ukaan - ukaan - /ukaa�ukaa�/ [ukaaN ukaaN] LLL LLL aj : tall, thin <strong>and</strong> lanky.<br />

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