Dubaku
The Twi compound "ten-one", used as a birth-order name for a family's eleventh child.
Meaning and origin
Dubaku joins the Twi numerals du, "ten", and baako, "one", into the word for eleven, following the wider Akan custom of naming children for their position in the family as well as for the weekday they were born.
How to pronounce Dubaku
| Akan (Ghana) | doo-BAH-koh /duːbaːko/ |
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