ɔwawa
Akan
![](Images/wiktionary/Triplochiton_scleroxylon_K.Schum._(GH0302).jpg.webp)
ɔwawa
Alternative forms
- (Fante) owowa[1]
Etymology
cf. Nzima wawa
Noun
ɔwawa
- obeche, African whitewood (Triplochiton scleroxylon)[1]
Related terms
- wawa-aba (noun)
References
- [[w::ar:فريدريك روبرت إيرفن|Irvine, F. R.]] (1961) Woody Plants of Ghana: With Special Reference to Their Uses, London: Oxford University Press, page 184
Further reading
- Christaller, Johann Gottlieb (1881) , “o̱-wawa”, in A Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language Called Tshi (Chwee, Tw̌i), Basel, page 535: “a kind of large tree”