kobo

See also: kòbo, kōbō, and Kōbō

English

Noun

kobo (plural kobos or kobo)

1. 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

• boko, Book, bòkò, Koob, book, Boko

Principense

Etymology

From Portuguese cobra (“snake”), from Old Galician-Portuguese coobra, from Latin colubra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔ.bɔ]

Noun

kobo

1. snake, serpent

References

• “kobo” in 2012, Vanessa Pinheiro de Araújo, Um Dicionário Principense-Português.

Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *ngʊ̀bò.

Noun

kobo class 9/10 (plural dikobo)

1. blanket

Volapük

Adverb

kobo

1. together

Related terms

• kobojen
• koboköm
• kobolagön
• kobolevüd
• kobolevüdön
• kobolägön
• kobonumam
• kobonumamalül
• kobonumön
• kobopedön
• kobopladam
• kobopladot
• kobopladön
• koboplifön
• koboseid
• koboseidön
• kobosukön
• kobosumön
• koboton
• kobotonön
• kobovobön
• koboyum
• koboyumot
• koboyümavöd
• koboyümön
• koboäd
• koboädavöd
• koboädik
• koboädön

 

Waboda

Noun

kobo

1. water

References

• Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67