Even Hausas, igbos, say dodo. ..what is the English word for Dodo ..... Or?

If its plantain you mean then you are wrong cos Igbo's call it une or Abrika.
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Abiagirl777:
If its plantain you mean then you are wrong cos Igbo's call it une or Abrika.
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I mean they adopt that word. I have lot of them as friends.. I don't mean that's the right word in igbo

Plantain

Hardeysolution:
I mean they adopt that word. I have lot of them as friends.. I don't mean that's the right word in igbo

Maybe in Lagos and other westrn states but not in the east,I heard it on Nl for the first time.
Travel out,the world doesn't end in Lagos,Ogun n Abuja.

In Igboland its called Ogede, Plantain is supposed to be the English name isn't it?

Abiagirl777:


Maybe in Lagos and other westrn states but not in the east,I heard it on Nl for the first time.
Travel out,the world doesn't end in Lagos,Ogun n Abuja.

Exactly, Its called Ogede in Igboland, no one I know in Enugu calls it dodo..

Baroba:


Exactly, Its called Ogede in Igboland, no one I know in Enugu calls it dodo..

isn't ogede Yoruba?

Baroba:


Exactly, Its called Ogede in Igboland, no one I know in Enugu calls it dodo..

lolz...eve the ogede is yoruba for banana

In Benin it is called Edodo

In English it is called fried plantain