shea

See also: Shea

English

tree

nuts

Etymology

Borrowed from Bambara si.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃi/, /ʃeɪ/, /ʃi.ə/, /ʃɪə/

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• Rhymes: -iːə

Noun

shea (plural sheas)

1. A tree (Vitellaria paradoxa) indigenous to Africa, occurring in Mali, Cameroon, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Togo, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Burkina Faso and Uganda.
   • 1799, Mungo Park, chapter XVI, in Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, pages 202–203:

     The people were every where employed in collecting the fruit of the Shea trees, from which they prepare the vegetable butter mentioned in former parts of this work. […] They are not planted by the natives, but are found growing naturally in the woods; and, in clearing wood land for cultivation, every tree is cut down but the Shea.

2. The fruit of this tree, having a thin, tart, nutritious pulp that surrounds a relatively large, oil-rich seed.

   Synonym: shea nut

Synonyms

• (tree): shea tree, vitellaria; Butyrospermum parkii, B. paradoxum

Derived terms

• shea butter

Translations

tree

• Adele: dɩdɩnpɔ
• Aja (West Africa): ayɔ
• Ashe: ijajar
• Bafanji: mbʉʉ
• Basaa: njàp
• Bissa: kur
• Buli (Ghana): cham
• Catalan: karité m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乳油木

• Chumburung: kuroŋku
• Dutch: Sheaboom m
• Dyula: si, sisun
• Esperanto: buterarbo
• Farefare: tã'aŋa
• Finnish: voipuu (fi)
• French: karité (fr)
• Fula: kaareehi
• Fungwa: jígò
• Gbe:

  Saxwe Gbe: limitin

• German: Karitébaum m
• Gourmanchéma: sàànbu
• Hausa: kaɗanya
• Ifè: ɛmɛ
• Italian: karité (it) f
• Japanese: シアーバターノキ (shiābatāno-ki)
• Kabiye: somuu
• Kasem: sɔŋɔ
• Lela: rìgá̱
• Lithuanian: afrikinis sviestmedis
• Mbelime: càǹbù
• Moore: taanga
• Nawuri: kʋdʋnpɔɔ
• Nkonya: klenku oyi
• Portuguese: carité m
• Russian: де́рево Ши n (dérevo Ši)
• Senoufo:

  Djimini: letige

• Spanish: karité m
• Swedish: sheanötsträd n
• Turka: mũsũɔ̃gu

fruit

• Bambara: kɔlɔ
• Bissa: ɲɔɔr
• Buli (Ghana): jigsidi, bakesing, bagiak, pileri
• Cerma: musɛ̃lle, berre
• Chumburung: kigyamwee, kigyamuree, ke̱le̱ŋpɔ
• Dagbani: taani
• Dyula: kɔlɔ, sikɔlɔ, simɔ
• Ede:

  Ifè: kpótsa

• Finnish: voipuun pähkinä
• Fula: holoore, haareere
• Gbe:

  Saxwe Gbe: limikun

• Gourmanchéma: sànkpèbu, sàànli, sàngbángu, sànkááli, sànguoli
• Hausa: kaɗanya
• Kabiye: cʋnɛ, aga, sʋŋgbaɖʋʋ
• Kasem: sɩʋ, swɛn, baguə
• Mbelime: wùòfɛ̀
• Moore: taamde, zoonfo, zũunfu
• Senoufo:

  Djimini: logombyɔ, logolo, lopɛrɛgɛ

• Swedish: sheanöt c
• Turka: viiri

Further reading

• Vitellaria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• HEAs, Seah, Eash, Ashe, Hase, HAES, seah, æsh, ashe, hase

Yola

Noun

shea

1. alternative form of shoo
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Shea's a gooude lickeen michel.

     She's a good-looking girl.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 54