Akure

See also: Akurẹ

English

Etymology

From Yoruba Àkúrẹ́.

Proper noun

Akure

1. The largest city and state capital of Ondo State, Nigeria.
   • 1963, Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease, Penguin Classics (2010), page 111:

     He had not even stopped for lunch at Akure which was the normal half-way house for travellers from Eastern Nigeria to Lagos, but had driven numbly, mile after mile, from morning till evening.

Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔà.kú.ɽé/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔà.kʷʊ́.ɽé]

• Audio (Nigeria):

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Proper noun

Akure ?

1. Akure (the largest city and state capital of Ondo State, Nigeria)