The story
- Akan · derived fromdum“to extinguish, to quench”
- English todaydumsor
From Akan dum (“to extinguish, to quench”) + sɔ (“to turn on, light”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
dumsor
Today it means: blackout, load shedding, particularly when occurring frequently but in no discernible regular pattern. Full definition →
Akan dum