Yoruba
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6.5
- noun
- /jəˈruːbə/
- I used to be a student, very ignorant student of the great Yoruba pantheon, which really fascinated me, still does.
- Ijebu Yoruba
- Yoruba in Nigeria
- Yoruba art
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Watch on YouTubeIt's got nothing to do with like how I actually feel about myself or my Ebonus, my Yoruba Ness, my Lua, whatever tribe you are.
- It's got nothing to do with like how I actually feel about myself or my Ebonus, my Yoruba Ness, my Lua, whatever tribe you are.
Examples
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My mother is Yoruba from Nigeria; she met my father here at the university.
Fiction book (1993) -
For the Yoruba, the crossroads were a place of power and danger.
Academic text (2015) -
At any rate, Bill identified a large number of Yoruba and other artists.
Academic text (1994) -
Yoruba is my tribal origin.
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Babangida did not allow a Yoruba to rule since that was not in the interest of the northern Hausa-Fulani.
Academic text (1993) -
Like all sexual ideologies, that of the Yoruba is riddled with contradictions and points of contention.
Academic text (1999) -
Candomblé religion diffused from the Yoruba area of West Africa to Bahia, Brazil, via the slave trade.
Academic text (1990) -
The robe's narrow strips were woven in the Yoruba weaving center of Ilorin, but the embroidery is probably Hausa.
Academic text (1999) -
The effect echoes Judith Gleason's observations of Yoruba Egungun masquerades and suggests something of a transatlantic tradition of sacred clothwork.
Academic text (1993) -
My mother is a Yoruba from Nigeria; she shared many stories about our culture.
Synonyms
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8.1
A person who belongs to the Yoruba people or speaks their language
Compounds
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6.5
A language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria and nearby countries
Surface Forms
Etymology
Yoruba is the name the people use for themselves in West Africa, and early European traders and writers copied that name into English. So Yoruba today means the West African people who live mainly in southwestern Nigeria.