Uyo Ibibio Dictionary - Computational Linguistics and Spoken ...

Uyo–Bielefeld Ibibio Dictionary (Urua, Ekpenyong, Gibbon)
iko. /ik�/ [ikO] LH n: a tiny fragrant leaf used to season soup.
ikon /ikon/ [ikon] LH n: a wooden musical instrument of the xylophone type.
ikon /ikon/ [ikon] HF n: a kind of white-fleshed melon, its seeds are dried, pounded to
a powder, and used for thickening of soup (cf. egusi, ekusi).
iko.n - /ik��/ [ikON] HF n: snuff, tobacco.
iko.n - /ik��/ [ikON] HF n: leaves (pl. of NkON ).
ikop /ikop/ [ikop] LH n: tick (insect).
ikop /ikop/ [ikop] LH n: cupping calabash (?).
iko.t /ik�t/ [ikOt] HH n: feaces.
iko.t /ik�t/ [ikOt] HH n: uncultivated land, bush (used with the name of certain flora
and fauna to mean wild); plot, plantation; followers, descendants, family, people of a
particular place (many place names contain the word iikOt).
ikpa /ikpa/ [ikpa] HH n: skin, leather, anything worn around the waist, a belt esp a
covering of beads around the waist (many strings of beads worn together), razor strop.
ikpa /ikpa/ [ikpa] HH n: whip, cane.
ikpa /ikpa/ [ikpa] LL n: stomach; a bag-like object esp one containing air (var. ekpa).
ikpa iso.n - /ikpa is��/ [ikpa isON] HH HL n: the original people, people with roots in
the community; clan council, the council of elders (the body which holds the land; clan,
tribe).
ikpafak /ikpafak/ [ikpafak] HHH n: a wedge used to split a large piece of wood, it is
placed in a crack and hammered through; a hinderance, stumbling block (var. ikpifak).
ikpafi.m /ikpaf�m/ [ikpafIm] LLL n: a kind of timber tree, used for chewing stick (var.
ikpafVm).
ikpafi.m /ikpaf�m/ [ikpafIm] LLL aj : foot-loose, unsteady, unstable (var. ikpafVm).
ikpaf m /ikpaf m/ [ikpafVm] LLL n: a kind of timber tree, used for chewing stick (var.
ikpafIm).
ikpaf m /ikpaf m/ [ikpafVm] LLL aj : foot-loose, unsteady, unstable (var. ikpafIm).
ikpak p /ikpak p/ [ikpakVp] HHH n: a disease of the spleen involving a swelling on
one side of the belly.
ikpan /ikpan/ [ikpan] HH n: the seed of ikon dried, crushed to a powder and roasted.
ikpan - /ikpa�/ [ikpaN] LH n: spoon.
ikpan - inyan - /ikpa�i j a�/ [ikpaN iJaN] LH HL n: a white bird with long thin legs
(Goldie pelican) (injaN river).
ikpanya /ikpanja/ [ikpanja] LHLL : a kind of large tree, Daniellia thurifera (Dalziel).
ikpat /ikpat/ [ikpat] LL n: foot.
ikpe /ikpe/ [ikpe] LH n: a festival which occurs in November or December, masquerades
with painted skins and dressed in colourful costumes and bells dance on a platform in a
forest, after the dancing, each masquerade kills a goat, this must be done with a single
stroke of the knife otherwise the man is fined and is subjected to humiliation, a feast
follows this ceremony.
ikpe /ikpe/ [ikpe] HH n: a case.
ikpeghe /ikpe�e/ [ikpeRe] HHH n: partition (in the house made of cloth); section of
bush partitioned by boundary markers.
ikpiikpu /ikpiikpu/ [ikpiikpu] LH LH aj : worthless; fruitless, in vain (var. ikpuikpu).
ikpifak /ikpifak/ [ikpifak] HHH n: a wedge used to split a large piece of wood, it is
placed in a crack and hammered through (var. ikpafak).
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