ìṣáná
noun
/ī.ʃá.nã́/
ùṣáná (alternative)
Definitions
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match (device for starting fire)
Used inilé ìṣáná
Etymology
From ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) + ṣáná (“to ignite”).
Component words
ì-nominalizing prefixṣánáto ignite
Words in other languages from this one
These are words in other languages that came from this Yorùbá word, mostly through trade, the Atlantic slave trade, and contact with neighbouring languages.
They are not translations. A word here means what it means in its own language, which may have drifted a long way from the Yorùbá it started as.
àshānāHausa
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “iṣana”.
Reference:
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