English Explanatory Dictionary

Ondo

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Hungarian.
name
  1. A state of Nigeria in the South West geopolitical zone. Capital and largest city: Akure.
  2. A city in Ondo State, Nigeria.
  3. A historical kingdom in Nigeria.
  4. A dialect of Yoruba spoken in Ondo State.
noun
  1. People of Ondo City, Ondo State, and/or Ondo Kingdom, collectively.
adj
  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Ondo City, Ondo State, Ondo Kingdom, their people or their cultures.
  2. Of, from, or pertaining to the Ondo dialect of Yoruba.

Word forms

Ondo Ondos

Etymology

Borrowed * either from Basque ondo (“deep valley, ravine, gully”), * or from Hungarian Ondó, from the given name Ond + -ó (archaic diminutive), hence unrelated to ondó (“semen”).

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on O Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary