iro

iro

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Iroquoian languages.

Cognates include Saho iró.

• IPA^(key): /iˈɾo/
• Hyphenation: i‧ro

iró

1. high

iró f (plural iroorá f)

1. outside
2. height, altitude

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “iro”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2004) Parlons Afar: Langue et Culture, L'Hammartan, →ISBN, page 38
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

irò

1. dog

From older ido.

• Hyphenation: i‧ro

iro

1. a dog

   Synonym: ayam

2. an ablutophobic person
3. a despicable person
4. dog meat; the flesh and other edible parts derived from dogs

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:iro.

From iri (“to go”) +‎ -o.

• IPA^(key): [ˈiro]
• Rhymes: -iro
• Hyphenation: ir‧o

iro (accusative singular iron, plural iroj, accusative plural irojn)

1. trip, course, run, going

iro

1. Rōmaji transcription of いろ

From Proto-Austronesian (compare Indonesian ulat (“caterpillar”), Malay ulat (“worm, maggot”), Fijian ulo, Chamorro ulo').

iro (used in a reduplicated form as iroiro)

1. maggot

• ira, iru, ire

From Proto-Germanic *hiz.

(h)iro

1. her

iro

1. first-person singular present indicative of irar

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈiɾo/ [ˈi.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -iɾo
• Syllabification: i‧ro

iro m (plural iros)

1. (rare) a Mohawk hairstyle

   Synonyms: cresta, mohicano

Cognate with Cornish ura.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɪrɔ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈiːrɔ/, /ˈɪrɔ/

iro (first-person singular present iraf)

1. to lubricate, oil
2. to anoint

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “iraf”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

• ùró (CY, SEY)

From ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ ró (“to wrap”), probably from Proto-Yoruboid *ù-ló, compare with Igala ùló

• IPA^(key): /ì.ɾó/

ìró

1. a cloth wrapped around a woman's lower body, usually made with six yards of fabric

• oníròó (“one with a cloth wrapper”)

From ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ ró (“to sound”)

• ùró (CY, SEY)

• IPA^(key): /ì.ɾó/

ìró

1. sound; noise
2. (by extension) distant news or information on someone or something

   Synonym: ìròyìn

• gbúròó

• ìró ohùn (“pitch”)
• ìró-akùnyín-ùn (“voiced sound; sonorant”)
• ìró àìkùnyín-ùn (“voiceless sound”)
• bátànì ìró (“sound pattern”)
• ìró àfitán-ánnápè (“glottal sound”)
• ìró asétán-ánnápè (“glottal stop”)
• ìró-àfèjì-ètèpè (“bilabial sound”)

• ariwo (“noise”)
• ùfófó (“noise”) (Ekiti)

Compare with Olukumi úrò (“ape”)

• IPA^(key): /ī.ɾò/

irò

1. a general term for any species of great ape; gorilla, chimpanzee

   Synonyms: elégbèdè, ìnàkí

• ọṣà (“chimpanzee”)
• ọ̀bọ (“monkey”)

From ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ rò (“to think”), see èrò (“thought”)

• IPA^(key): /ì.ɾò/

ìrò

1. thinking; the process of thinking

• àìrò (“lack of thinking”)
• ìròkúrò (“bad thinking”)

From ì- +‎ ro

• IPA^(key): /ì.ɾō/

ìro

1. meanness, cruelty

   Synonyms: ìkà, ìwàkíwà