What azụ means
- azụ Noun and food
- fish / backFish on a plate, a back on a body. A tortoise's shell is its azụ: 'azụ Mbe' = the tortoise's shell.
How to say it
Say it as a-zụ. Keep every written vowel clear, including dotted vowels, without adding an English stress pattern.
Igbo is tonal, so pitch can change a word’s meaning. The marks above show this reading. The recording is a native speaker.
azụ in a sentence
- Ana m eri azụ.I eat fish.
- M na-ere azụ naira ise.I sell fish for five naira.
- Ọ tụgharịghị azụ, ma o ji ncheta ahụ gaa n'ihu.She did not turn back, but carried the memory forward.