kobo
English
editNoun
editkobo (plural kobos or kobo)
- A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Nigerian naira.
- 2023, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things, Canongate Books, page 182:
- How much would those ones drop in his bowl? Tattered, dirty, sellotaped five-naira notes? Those coins that had just been reintroduced but were useless, because not even bàbá dúdú was sold for fifty kobo or one naira anymore? Was one naira actually money if you could not even buy sweets with it?
Anagrams
editPrincipense
editEtymology
editFrom Portuguese cobra (“snake”), from Old Galician-Portuguese coobra, from Latin colubra.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkobo
References
edit- “kobo” in 2012, Vanessa Pinheiro de Araújo, Um Dicionário Principense-Português.
Sotho
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Bantu *ngʊ̀bò.
Noun
editkobo class 9/10 (plural dikobo)
Volapük
editAdverb
editkobo
Related terms
editWaboda
editNoun
editkobo
References
edit- Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67
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