veve

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of various symbols, like line diagrams, that have religious significance in voodoo, serving as a representation of the loa.

Word forms

veve veves vévé vèvè vever

Etymology

From Haitian Creole vèvè, from Portuguese viver (“to live”).

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