ọkẹ

See also: Ọkẹ

Yoruba
Yoruba numbers (edit)
 ←  10,000  ←  19,000 20,000 100,000  → 
2,000[a], [b]
    Cardinal: ọ̀kẹ́, ẹgbàawàá
    Counting: ọ̀kẹ́ kan, ẹgbàawàá
    Adjectival: ọ̀kẹ́ kan, ẹgbàawàá
    Ordinal: ẹgbàawàá

Etymology

Numeral sense derived from noun sense, as one ọ̀kẹ́ (bag), contained around twenty thousand cowries.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɔ̀.kɛ́/

Numeral

ọ̀kẹ́

  1. twenty thousand

Derived terms

Noun

ọ̀kẹ́

  1. a bag, or sac, usually containing cowries
  2. (by extension, anatomy) amniotic sac

Derived terms
  • Ọ̀kẹ́ (“Yoruba name, given to a child born with its amniotic sac intact via a en-caul birth”)
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