apola

== Northern Sotho == === Etymology === Borrowed from English apple. === Noun === apola apple == Yoruba == === Etymology === The sense "phrase" was coined by Yoruba Metalanguage (Èdè-ìperí Yorùbá) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /à.k͡pó.là/ === Noun === àpólà (originally) wood splinter (linguistics, by extension) phrase [from 1984] === References === Ẹgbẹ́-Onímọ̀-Èdè-Yorùbá (Yoruba Studies Association of Nigeria) (1984), Ayọ Bamgboṣe, editor, Yoruba Metalanguage (Èdè-ìperí Yorùbá): A Glossary of English-Yoruba Technical Terms in Language, Literature, and Methodology, volume 1, Nigeria Educational Research Council