kobo
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]kobo (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
[edit]Principense
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Portuguese cobra (“snake”), from Old Galician-Portuguese coobra, from Latin colubra.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kobo
References
[edit]- “kobo” in 2012, Vanessa Pinheiro de Araújo, Um Dicionário Principense-Português.
Sotho
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Bantu *ngʊ̀bò.
Noun
[edit]kobo class 9/10 (plural dikobo)
Volapük
[edit]Adverb
[edit]kobo
Related terms
[edit]Waboda
[edit]Noun
[edit]kobo
References
[edit]- Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67
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