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apurukusu

Twi/Akan · Akan (Asante), Ashanti Region · General vocabulary

The electric fish. Ampene & Nyantakyi (2016) note it is attached as an emblem to the Bɔaman state umbrella, and that the royal gun ɛtwom is also called aprukusu, 'the electric eel'.

An electric fish emblem is attached to one of the king's umbrellas.

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