what do they mean,uru/uhu ,umuhu/umuru urueze etc

Uru can mean flesh, gain or mourn depending on the usage and tone.
Eg enweghi uru no na isi azu, meaning there is flesh in fish head.
Onwetara uru na ahia O zuru - meaning he made profit/gain in the business.
Ezi na ulo ahu no na uru - meaning that family is mourning.

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The closest English approximation for 'uhu' is 'village'. It's completely unrelated to the words for flesh and profit.

Doesnt uru mean darkness?

tpiadotcom:
Doesnt uru mean darkness?

Igbo word for darkness is uchi chi or ochichiri, in orlu Igbo is call itiri

There is darkness - ochichiri gbara (onitsha dialect)
Okwuru itiri (orlu dialect).

ChinenyeN:
The closest English approximation for 'uhu' is 'village'. It's completely unrelated to the words for flesh and profit.

I was only interested in the URU.
I don't know of any similarity between the URU and UHU.

sirade:


I was only interested in the URU.
I don't know of any similarity between the URU and UHU.

Same word, brother. Uru in parts of Anambra, Uhu in Imo/Abia area.

Radoillo:


Same word, brother. Uru in parts of Anambra, Uhu in Imo/Abia area.

Dear which part of Imo uses Uhu?
I can attest for URU.

sirade:


Dear which part of Imo uses Uhu?
I can attest for URU.

Uhu-Umuba, Uhu-Orji, Ama-Uhu, Ndi-Uhu, etc.

These are place-names. And in such place-names the term is 'Uhu' for Imo/Abia, but 'Uru' for us up in northern Anambra.

The OP is talking about place-names. You, however, seem to be talking about a completely different word (profit/flesh), which is 'Uru' in Imo/Abia, but 'Ulu' in much of Anambra.

I might also add that the two groups of words are pronounced differently.

Úhú or Úrú = place-name (what the OP is talking about)

Úrù or Úlù = flesh/profit (what you are talking about)

Radoillo:


Uhu-Umuba, Uhu-Orji, Ama-Uhu, Ndi-Uhu, etc.

These are place-names. And in such place-names the term is 'Uhu' for Imo/Abia, but 'Uru' for us up in northern Anambra.

The OP is talking about place-names. You, however, seem to be talking about a completely different word (profit/flesh), which is 'Uru' in Imo/Abia, but 'Ulu' in much of Anambra.

Ok I misunderstood OP

Uhu means homestead, like a base for a family, or hamlet.

Radoillo:


Uhu-Umuba, Uhu-Orji, Ama-Uhu, Ndi-Uhu, etc.

These are place-names. And in such place-names the term is 'Uhu' for Imo/Abia, but 'Uru' for us up in northern Anambra.

The OP is talking about place-names. You, however, seem to be talking about a completely different word (profit/flesh), which is 'Uru' in Imo/Abia, but 'Ulu' in much of Anambra.

There's Uruala and one other Uru town in Imo state tho.

ezeagu:
Uhu means homestead, like a base for a family, or hamlet.

You may be right,much like Akabo stands for settlement/citadel of

Dhugal:

There's Uruala and one other Uru town in Imo state tho.

Oh, interesting to hear.

Uhu and akabo stands for same thing,but Uhu seems more like the elders homestead while akabo is the younger. Both are clans name in my community

herringbone:
Uhu and akabo stands for same thing,but Uhu seems more like the elders homestead while akabo is the younger. Both are clans name in my community

We're both saying same thing,homestead/settlement.
I also come from an Akabo village in an Uru community

Uhuruhuruhuru!!!!!!

Uru/ Uhu means home/ a place of dwelling in Igbo.
I think the modern Igbo language had replaced it with Uno/Uno/Ulo.

In Isiukwuato, this shift from Uru to Uno/ Ulo/ Uyo/ oro, never happened, and the name for home in Isiukwuato remains Uhu up this day.

Well, that's my understanding of the word.

Radoillo:


Same word, brother. Uru in parts of Anambra, Uhu in Imo/Abia area.

If you no nothing you better keep silent Uru means gain ,profit,flesh in IMO STATE not uhu may mean another thing

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ROYALD:


If you no nothing you better keep silent Uru means gain ,profit,flesh in IMO STATE not uhu may mean another thing

If you don't understand what is being discussed, you could do yourself a service by keeping your fingers off the 'reply' and 'quote' features. Or if you do decide to use them, ask to be clarified on what is being discussed.

pazienza:
Uru/ Uhu means home/ a place of dwelling in Igbo.
I think the modern Igbo language had replaced it with Uno/Uno/Ulo.

In Isiukwuato, this shift from Uru to Uno/ Ulo/ Uyo/ oro, never happened, and the name for home in Isiukwuato remains Uhu up this day.

Well, that's my understanding of the word.

I think uhu is more general for ancestral homeland or compound, whereas ulo is a single home.

sirade:


Igbo word for darkness is uchi chi or ochichiri, in orlu Igbo is call itiri

There is darkness - ochichiri gbara (onitsha dialect)
Okwuru itiri (orlu dialect).

You don't know Onitsha dialect.

NRIPRIEST:



You don't know Onitsha dialect.

I speak Onitsha township Igbo so I know what I am talking about.
I might not know deep Onitsha dialect but what I wrote is a regular phrase use in Onitsha and environ.
Though I stand to be corrected

ezeagu:


I think uhu is more general for ancestral homeland or compound, whereas ulo is a single home.

Well, to an average Isiukwuato person, "uhu" is his single home.

An Isiukwuato lady I met in Aba will always tell her kids: " Ngwa, Chidera gbara gaa n' Uhu ga wetaram key shedim".

What do you make of the word "Uhu" in that context as used by the Isiukwuato woman.

pazienza:


Well, to an average Isiukwuato person, "uhu" is his single home.

An Isiukwuato lady I met in Aba will always tell her kids: " Ngwa, Chidera gbara gaa n' Uhu ga wetaram key shedim".

What do you make of the word "Uhu" in that context as used by the Isiukwuato woman.

Look at it this way, 'uhu' probably wouldn't be used when talking about building a home, like 'm na ru uhu', it would be ulo, which is why I think uhu is more of a base or homestead, household, than a house. I think you're right that 'uhu' is home, just that I'm not sure if it can be interchanged with all the meanings for ulo.

Dhugal:

You may be right,much like Akabo stands for settlement/citadel of

Is akabo the same as fortress??

Well,Uhu and Ulo cannot be interchanged. Uhu is an ancestral home,a village, a larger settlement, communal home which is made up of different members of different families, while Ulo is a single or personal house.
For example,a man based in Enugu but from Isuilwuato would say ''Uhu'' when he wants to travel home.
But in his Uhu,that is Isuikwuato,he would say Ama when he wants to enter his ancestral kindred but will say Ulo when he is directly referring to his 'house' made up of his wife and kids. A man cannot say he has built an Uhu in his village. Dem no born am well!! He cannot build an Uhu. His ancestors has already discovered and settled down in his Uhu. But he can build his personal Ulo in his Uhu. You get the difference now?
I believe Uhu covered all other forms of house in the past,but nowadays, uhu and ulo stand for two different forms of habitation.

Which people use Uru? As in Uruala?