Tangle words starting with A

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• Aa No
• A’a ? What did you say? Can also be an exclamation of surprise, meaning: Is that so…
• Ababaje A type of tree that does not dry easily
• Abadu Divide, split, separate
• Abar Luck, favour
• Abago Branch (to a male)
• Abaji Branch (to a female)
• Abar Half
• Abastam She, her
• Abatho Will turn, branch (to a female)
• Abo Turning, branching
• Abthago Branch here (to a male)
• Abei half
• Abenabe Branching
• Abro Plaiting
• Abu To feed child with liquid
• Abuga An endearing term for calling a male person
• Adada Thatched roof house of four corners
• Adapara White ants which eat sweet things like sugar
• Adau Sesame seeds
• Adauji Your sesame (to a female)
• Adauwum pe White sesame / beniseed
• Adauwum tai Red
• Adda Elder sister
• Adde It will be eaten/will eat (meat)
• Addeim Does not eat the meat
• Addugo Has/have eaten the meat
• Addugom Has not eaten the meat
• Adduthau Feast, especially that of eating of meat by elders
• Ade Mating
• Adengem To balance load on the head without holding the load
• Adokko Grasshopper
• Adpi Follow
• Adu Take, carry
• Adi Will take
• Aduk Load
• Adukno My load
• Adukkei Arms
• Ag Sharpen
• Agadugo They have sharpened them.Agasshi. (They are) sharpened
• Agbom wa Tithe
• Ago Stomach
• Agku Your stomachs
• Agogo Clock (Der
• Agog la’ara Watch
• Ai A variety of millet
• Aikuptho Egypt
• Aina a
• Aipaba Sorry, hard luck
• Aisaba exclam
• Aiyee exclam
• Aiyi Is that so?
• Aje Snake
• Ajem Not a snake
• Akenti Name of a person who lost both parents at a tender age
• Akette Male grasshopper
• Akku To chisel, carve
• Akkule To cut into pieces, slice
• Akokonje Praying mantis
• Akontulong A variety of beans whose pods are twisted or crooked
• Akulak nails (For finger and toe)
• Akunga Name of a female
• Akungthung Notorious giant, especially thief
• Akurbol Cap
• Akwagwa Hausa
• Akwalla Colour
• Akwambani Warthog /pig
• Al Contracted form of alu
• Alu Burn it
• Ala Grass, usually fresh one as fodder for animals
• Alaa A stick/rod
• Alawu Their stick(s)
• Alampila In the family of spinach.Leaves used for making soup
• Alantanga Shrub with eatable leaves
• Alatena Pestle
• Alawunthu Ladder for climbing a barn
• Aleiyapo Hausa.Spinach
• Alele Hausa
• Aleuleu Butterfly
• Algudu Polish
• Algude To polish
• Algudgo Has/have been polished
• Alkussi Polished
• Ali Hausa
• Aling-aling Of ground, hard, tough
• Alkama Wheat
• Alu Burn
• Alum-alum Descriptive of high flame
• Alukdak A stone slab sometimes used as a threshing floor
• Aluke Please
• Am That, which
• Am Water
• Amalanke Hausa.A cart on two wheels usually pulled or pushed
• Amamayo Scabies
• Ambekang Male name in one of the clans
• Ambelkama First born child, whether male or female
• Ambu Climb
• Ambei Climbing, going upwards/northwards
• Ambago You, (male) climb
• Ambuambe Climbing
• Ambigum A type of flute made from fresh cornstalk
• Amboro Soup ingredient made from fermented seeds of baobab
• Amdo Love
• Amdok Another, additional, one more, a different . Amdok mene
• Amdukka Potash liquid
• Ameer Wrestling dress tied on the waist
• Ameninsom Measles
• Amerka America
• Amengleng To be playful or slow in doing things
• Amilthemi Hyena
• Amirka A wooden needle used in making a thatch roof
• Amit A shrub
• Amkulji Orange colour
• Amlakwitong Rain/rain water
• Amleku A wild plant with leaves like that of onion
• Ammi The water, the watery part
• Amo’rr A variety of raddish, white in colour
• Ampara Lion
• Am pinon Water for bathing
• Ampitila A variety of black ants
• Ampo He-goat
• Ampulthanpu A shrub with wide leaves and which has white secretion when broken
• Amtali Yellow
• Amtolo Orange
• Amtorol Rain water
• Amsau Corn water
• Amsondi First rains
• Amting Ordinary water
• Amugo Prepared silk for lighting fire
• Amundikdik Sweetened water made from corn
• Amutha Name of a village/place
• Amwidi Breast milk
• Amwiddi Tears
• An It is
• Ana Guineaworm
• Ana Those who
• Anaam A moron, a foolish, unwise, idiotic person
• Analepsaba Believers
• Ananbura Those who are possessed
• Anankabur Receptionists
• Anankebe Greedy, gluttunous person
• Anankerek Wicked/cruel persons
• Anankerkama Soldier(s)
• Anankol Witnesses
• Anankoron Guards, watchmen
• Ankette Species of grasshopper
• Ankoltulong A species of beans in a curved, spiral form
• Ananballa Christians, believers
• Anankelum Those on punishment
• Anankidowu Cripples
• Anankuba Blacksmith(s). na adukkin doon twan tu anankuba
• Anankule Barber(s)
• Anankudde Elder(s)
• Anankwada The rich
• Anankwathag Youth(male)
• Anankwathe Robber(s.)
• Ananla’ala Policeman/men
• Ananlai (pl.) Parents
• Ananlaigo Your (male) parents
• Ananlaigu Your (neut. pl.) parents
• Ananlaimu Our parents
• Ananlaigu Your (pl. neut.) parents
• Ananlala Builder(s)
• Ananmai Traditional rulers, chiefs
• Anangmwatkwi Saviour, redeemer
• Anangmwatkwimu Our saviour, our redeemer
• Ananlebsaba Believers, Christians
• Anan mana Owners of the house; the family
• Ananmolle Brothers/ sisters
• An’anna A type of tree
• Ananpada The sick, patients
• Ananpamuwa Cleaners
• Ananpara Hunter(s)
• Ananpawa Butcher
• Ananpelem Liars
• Ananpi Back- benchers
• Ananpigo Your (sing. male) followers
• Ananpiji Your (sing. fem.) followers
• Ananpina They, them
• Ananpoki Those in the front line; leaders
• Ananposidam Kinsmen
• Ananriga Hunter(s)
• Anansalla Muslim
• Anansego A mean, thrifty, parsimonious person
• Anansegna Mourners
• Ananselo Beggars
• Anansen Wise /clever persons
• Ananserin Friends
• Anansiri Thief/thieves
• Ananti Shepherds
• Anantumar Foolish presons
• Ananwale Leper (s)
• Ananwogo Witch(es)
• Ananwolo Singers/musicians
• Ananwutho Farmers
• Ananwutten Workers, labourers
• Ananyebuwa Carpenter(s)
• Ananyele Seers, wise men
• Andaba Something or someone that smells
• Andar Late morning
• Andekdekke Distilled water
• Andu/anthu Mend, glue, patch up (particularly a hole or broken pot.)
• Andei/anthei Mending
• An nang Why? What is that? Annang shi yan wa ippuje? Why are you (feminine) doing that?
• Anduboyo/Antuboyo Soaked and ground corn flour for making porridge
• Angaji Coarse remains of a sieved flour of grains
• Angar A type of spirit in a certain place/spirit in a thick forest, or where a good s…
• Angau Evil spirit
• Angkathi Grass with tiny seeds like that of mustard
• Angkodom Desert date, a tree with thorns that has a hard yellowish fruit. (Balanites aeg…
• Angkoog Hornbill
• Angkwama A type of dance
• Ankabi A type of animal
• Ankakka A silk cotton tree
• Ankale Name of a person
• Ankangali White, big bambara nuts
• Ankayo An orphan
• Ankenthe A shrub whose bark is often peeled to make rope
• Ankette A species of grasshopper
• Ankiling Lizard
• Ankillong Male lizard
• Ankilthau Dancing instrument used by men
• Ankirpandi A reptile, like a frog but bigger
• Ankobsondi/thi Vulture
• Ankorol To look at someone disdainfully; a sneering, scornful look
• Ankultede Frog
• Ankubrang A shrub with edible fruits
• Ankudombo Ants
• Ankulak/ankule Shell
• Ankwagma Local bag
• Ankwi interrog. adv
• Annakka Decayed, rotten materials by the banks of a river
• Anse A type of flute made of wood
• Ansekkumkolo Swelling of the cheeks; mumps
• Ansilingsiling A type of shrub whose leaves are eaten
• Ansimensime A crawling insect that bites with its tail
• Anso Where is it?
• Ansom Sorrel
• Ansude To hit with folded hands
• Answik/Lanswik A rodent with a pungent odour
• Antalyang Centipede
• Antam modal.Will
• Antedum Frog
• Antoro Name of a person
• Antultai A type of kite with a red bottom and tail
• Antusumnang Why? Antusum nang shi nenangom? Why didn’t you (female) tell me?
• Anume A deaf person
• Apkwi Redemption, deliverance or recovery
• Appapalu A black-coated bird with long feet in the egret family
• Appe DET. Each other
• Appugo Your (male sing.) mates, colleagues.Appugom. (male sing.) not your colleagues
• Appu Open
• Appukwiwa Ransom, payoff
• Apulempule A type of frog
• Ara Hand
• Arakat A place between two branches of a tree
• Arakuthag An insect
• Arange Shout down, rebuke
• Arango Has shouted down, rebuked
• Ar appe Age mate(s)
• Arappi/ Arap Secondly/ second
• Arjeng Huge, gigantic (of a person)
• Arkil Thigh and waist joint
• Arpissi Rays of the sun. mini sonein arpissi
• Arthangu Removal of husks, impurities from grain through the use of calabash or tray
• Aru Dry
• Arei Drying it
• Argo Has dried
• As/Assa Inter
• Asambarwi Ulcer
• Asana Matches
• Ashide A type of insect (pest)
• Asidwa Leech
• Asiji Caterpillar, worm, maggot
• Asijilaago All types of worms found in human beings e.g. roundworm, askaris and hookworm
• Asikiliri Earthworm
• Asikonjo Chameleone
• Asindima Hornet, an insect in the family of wasps
• Asissila Species of grasshopper
• Asondi Anus, buttocks
• Asoge A species of grasshopper
• Assu Wait
• Atalyang A specie of millipede
• Atawurgo Grand in-law
• Atta/atto/attu Bring
• Attarupu A species of pepper
• Attau Mat or fence woven from grass or straw
• Attau po mana Mat used as a door covering/blind
• Atigna A type of grass
• Auwu Warm it
• Awe Hunting.Ka wakku la awe? Are you going for hunting?
• Ayaba Banana
• Ayam Useful, beneficial, fruitful, valuable
• Ayami Usefulness, value, benefit
• Ayang-ayang Bright, radiant, dazzling, glittering
• Ayebi Type of grass used for making mats
• Ayeg-ayeg panting, gasp, gasping
• Ayei Antelope
• Ayenjiyenje Millepede
• Ayolo Smoke
• Ayuyube Dizziness/dizzy