ɔwawa

Akan
ɔwawa

Alternative forms
  • (Fante) owowa[1]

Etymology

cf. Nzima wawa

Noun

ɔwawa

  1. obeche, African whitewood (Triplochiton scleroxylon)[1]
  • wawa-aba (noun)

References
  1. [[w::ar:فريدريك روبرت إيرفن|Irvine, F. R.]] (1961) Woody Plants of Ghana: With Special Reference to Their Uses‎, London: Oxford University Press, page 184

Further reading
  • Christaller, Johann Gottlieb (1881) , “o̱-wawa”, in A Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language Called Tshi (Chwee, Tw̌i)‎, Basel, page 535: “a kind of large tree”
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