Does any one here know the proper IGBO word of PRECIOUS

omaricha

romeo:

omaricha

objection

I think, if you want to say something is "Precious', you'll say the thing "di onu" or "gararu onu". Nowadays they use it for expensive but I think it's all the same.

katherinae:

Does any one here know the proper IGBO word of PRECIOUS

Donzman:

I think, if you want to say something is "Precious', you'll say the thing "di onu" or "gararu onu". Nowadays they use it for expensive but I think it's all the same.

objection

Ihe di precious bu ihe di oke onu, read your Igbo bible if you don't believe me!. . .Precious blood of Jesus, Obara Jesus di oke onu, remember your sunday school?

but you don't use oke onu in every day Igbo.
omaricha is the same adjective as precious.
But in sentences you can use other variants like,omaka amaka.
e.g

This girl is precious.
This girl amaka

This is so precious
This thing amaka

what a precious gift this is
omaricha gift anunwa sef

i love precious things
a likekirim ihe di nma

babyosisi is a precious lady
babyosisi di ezigbo oke onu
the girl di egwu

Babyosisi di oke onu, a na ebughari ya ka akwa (egg)!

Donzman:

Ihe di precious bu ihe di oke onu, read your Igbo bible if you don't believe me!. . .Precious blood of Jesus, Obara Jesus di oke onu, remember your sunday school?

hahahaha i toff my hat for you

i still object though. you are giving some probable characteristics of precious and not the meaning of precious. a precious thing is priceless, and even if it is priceful, it could be cheap. what makes it precious? is it the price tag or the worth? precious is the value of it. go throug that ekpere na abu igbo ma o bu bible igbo and let me know what it says about value or precious or worthy

babyO, the same goes to you
omalicha is beautiful and not precious,

babyosisi:




babyosisi is a precious lady
babyosisi di [b]ezigbo oke onu [/b]
the girl di egwu

sorry babyO, o putara na babyO is expensive

I think the word should be di oke onu.
It is not omaricha, omaricha is beautiful.
Gararu onu = expensive, costly. relates to pricing.
amaka = goodness.
precious =di oke onu. concerns quality
ezigbo oke onu=very precious ( as someone opined)

@ Donzman
What part of igbo are u from? Is like u are from my area.
I am from Enugu Ezike in Nsukka Zone in Enugu State.

a precious house means = omaricha uno and people don't say uno di oke onu
my precious daughter means = ada m di oke onu? no!! it means omaricha ada m
precious stone means an expensive stone

please i don't want any objection from monshege

hahahahaahah no comment

precious as the name of a girl is ~ akwaugo

chai, u guys thank u very very very much, i appreciate it, though now im slightly more confused than clarified.

@Soundmind

I'm from Anambra state, Oraifite to be precise.

@Monshege

It seems you're only objecting, look around you, there is no judge here. . .I believe if the people who translated the bible used "oke onu" for "precious", then that should be it. There are some Igbo words in the Igbo bible you do not hear nowadays.

Omaricha = Beautiful. . .It does not mean precious.

Donzman:


@Monshege

It seems you're only objecting, look around you, there is no judge here. . .I believe if the people who translated the bible used "oke onu" for "precious", then that should be it. There are some Igbo words in the Igbo bible you do not hear nowadays.

Omaricha = Beautiful. . .It does not mean precious.

i am objecting till i find something that sounds more like it , maybe someone shall be objecting the objection
oh, what passage of the igbo bible are you reading? let me know, _{so we can tulee bible igbo}. i always did like the manner in which it was written and read

katherinae:

chai, u guys thank u very very very much, i appreciate it, though now im slightly more confused than clarified.

my point exactly

E chere m na the 1st thing anyi ga eme bu to understand very well ihe precious putara na Engligh, then with that we will try to translate along the same line.

precious

adjective

Of great value: costly, inestimable, invaluable, priceless, valuable, worthy. Idioms: beyond price, of great price.

Regarded with much love and tenderness: beloved, darling, dear, loved.

noun

A person who is much loved: beloved, darling, dear, honey, love, minion, sweet, sweetheart, truelove. Informal sweetie. Idioms: light of one's life.

From the above it could be seen that there is no way omaricha = beautiful is part of the meaning of precious

Therefore, it is safe to translate precious as any of the following:

ihe di oke onu
ihe enweghi atu
ihe nwere oke ihunanya
ihe adighi azuta n'ahia
ihe kwesiri ntukwasi obi

@monshege
Objection is welcomed

all Dis igbo lessons sef

youngies:

E chere m na the 1st thing anyi ga eme bu to understand very well ihe precious putara na English, then with that we will try to translate along the same line.

precious

adjective

Of great value: costly, inestimable, invaluable, priceless, valuable, worthy. Idioms: beyond price, of great price.

Regarded with much love and tenderness: beloved, darling, dear, loved.

noun

A person who is much loved: beloved, darling, dear, honey, love, minion, sweet, sweetheart, truelove. Informal sweetie. Idioms: light of one's life.

my points exactly. _{you can also go further by going to the root origin for precious}

youngies:


@monshege
Objection is welcomed

nna a, chukwu gozie gi

romeo no comments

@Katherinae
sorry for the confusion, when something non objectionable comes up, monshege shall quit objecting

ehh?
what about Ebube which is also used as Glory,

o gbulu ebube, it look precious

yet olamma is precious jewel!

Ndi be anyi kwenu
precious simple means (Ukwuu) Note not Great

magixian:

ehh?
what about Ebube which is also used as Glory,

o gbulu ebube, it look precious

yet olamma is precious jewel!

Actually Olamma means Pretty/Beautiful Metal.

Ola = Iron or Metal (also Ona)

Hence, Ola Edo (Olaedo) = Yellow Metal i.e. Gold

There doesn't seem to be an Igbo word for "precious" but if there is I think it went out of use so long ago that not many people remember it.

Well. . . I think we do actually have a linguistic construction(s) that could be equivalent to "precious", but not necessarily a "word", if I'm not mistaking. And because Igbo is a rather technical language, we're going to end up describing the word and attributes of "precious", usually in relation to the specific context. So from my understanding, they would be:

1. Ihe Makarikasiri
Examples:
Nwaanyi ahu makarikasiri

2. Oke Onu Ahia
Example:
Ihe na di m oke onu ahia

onye asuzila engli-igbo. kedu ihe mere na ndi igbo anaghi asu igbo ebe ndi igbo kama, asusu oyibo na abughi asusa anyi ka anyi na asu?

[size=16pt]I FOUND IT!!!!![/size]

The Igbo words for precious are  Oko (High tone on the second O), Ngala (High tone on the N) and Oya ( Low tone on the O and High Tone on the A). I found it in a pre-colonial manuscript I'm researching. The manuscript is dated 1884 so I am sure it is correct.

Also, Ngala (Mid tone on the N, Low tones on the both A's) means Expensive

Monshege,

Ikwuru eziokwu. 'precious' dika 'priceless'.

Omaricha abughi ya
di oke onu abughi ya.

I ji maa atu, 'a precious baby' bu nwa amutara mgbe di na nwunye chogidegoro nwa ma ha ahughi ya.

Precious na Igbo bu . . . . . . . ihe bara oke uru is the closest i can go.

agabaI23:

Monshege,

Ikwuru eziokwu. 'precious' dika 'priceless'.

Omaricha abughi ya
di oke onu abughi ya.

I ji maa atu, 'a precious baby' bu nwa amutara mgbe di na nwunye chogidegoro nwa ma ha ahughi ya.

Precious na Igbo bu . . . . . . . ihe bara oke uru is the closest i can go.

I found it. Scroll up and read.

sugabelly:


I found it. Scroll up and read.

Oko based on the pronounciation must be another way of writing Uko which means scarce and is about the same thing as precious.

O di uko, it is scarce but can also be interpreted as it is precious. The use of O instead of U could be colonial problem just like we have Awkunawnaw instead of OKUNANU

I think you are correct.

Here is the dictionary from the 19th century.

http://www.archive.org/stream/anthropologicalr02thomuoft/anthropologicalr02thomuoft_djvu.txt

That's a dictionary of Oka/Onicha lects.