mooluẹ

Yoruba

Etymology

From English mould +‎ ẹ̀ (“it (third-person singular object pronoun)”), literally “mould it”, describing the manufacturing process.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /móò.lū.ɛ̀/

Noun

móòluẹ̀

1. (chiefly Lagos) molue (a type of bus in Lagos) [from 1970s]

   Wọ́n wọ móòluẹ̀ lọ sí Ìkòròdú. ― They took a molue to Ikorodu.

Descendants

• → Nigerian Pidgin: molue
• → English: molue

See also

• dáńfó

References

• “molue”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.