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dumsor

dumsor noun: blackout, load shedding, particularly when occurring frequently but in no discernible regular pattern.

Noun

dumsor (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial, Ghana) blackout, load shedding, particularly when occurring frequently but in no discernible regular pattern.
    • The end of ‘dumsor’ comes just at the end of the timeline that the Minister of Power, Mr Kwabena Donkor, gave that he would resign if the load shedding did not end. In March this year, Dr Donkor obligated himself to end dumsor by the end of December 2015.2015 December 30, Musah Yahaya Jafaru, “Dumsor ends”, in Graphic Online

Origin of dumsor

From Akan dum (“to extinguish, to quench”) + sɔ (“to turn on, light”).

Questions about dumsor

What does dumsor mean?
Dumsor means blackout, load shedding, particularly when occurring frequently but in no discernible regular pattern.
What part of speech is dumsor?
Dumsor is a noun.

Words near dumsor in the dictionary

  1. dumrees
  2. dumri
  3. dumrie
  4. dumries
  5. dumris
  6. dumsor
  7. Dumura Karbi
  8. dun
  9. dun comma
  10. dun commas
  11. dun crow

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