Igboadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈiːbəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈɪˌboʊ/, West African English

/ˈiɡbo/

Forms: Also Ebo, Ibo.

Etymology: Self-designation.

A. adj.

Of or relating to the Igbo people. Cf. Eboe n.Some of the examples refer to Igbos in the U.S.A. and the West Indies.

ΘΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of West Africa > [adjective]

Akani1686

Ashantian1705

Igbo1732

Mandingo1744

Nago1775

Temne1791

Wolof1828

Nupe1829

Kru1835

Gola1843

Mpongwe1844

Efik1849

Yoruban1853

Mossi1854

Fulbe1857

Ewe1861

Fan1861

Ibibio1862

Akan1863

Fon1864

Soninke1870

Mende1872

Ijo1883

Mande1883

Yoruba1883

Mitshi1892

Benin1893

Munchi1908

Yakö1926

Tallensi1936

Tiv1939

Limba1954

Kissi1957

Loma1957

1732 South Carolina Gaz. 20/1 Stolen..an old Ebo Negro Man;..had on a blue Negro Cloth Frock.

1774 E. Long Hist. Jamaica II. iii. ii. 403 The Ebo men are lazy, and averse to every laborious employment; the women performing almost all the work in their own country.

1799 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 89 163 The Negro women of the Mandingo and Ibbo nations.

a1818 M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. India Proprietor (1834) 190 The mortification of the Eboes.

1822 J. Adams Sketches Voy. Afr. iii. 41 Breeché, in the Heebo language, signifies gentleman.

1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 319/1 Soudan and Guinea... Ibo group.

1899 E. A. Wise in Niger & Yoruba Notes Nov. 37/1 We are morally pledged to do this by having a Mission in the Ibo country for over 40 years.

1950 D. Jones Phoneme 21 The Igbo language of Nigeria.

1951 R. Firth Elements Social Organization v. 165 Some of the Ibo people of South-Eastern Nigeria construct elaborate series of clay figures.

1960 Spectator 31 Oct. 616 The squalor and nobility of life in an Ibo tribe.

1968 Listener 19 Sept. 353/1 The Ibo officer who had just murdered the Premier of the Northern Region.

1968 Listener 19 Sept. 353/1 The Ibo leader, Ojukwu, and his five or six million Ibo are now concentrated within a narrowing portion of their former region.

B. n.

a. A people of the lower Niger region of West Africa; a member of this people.

ΘΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of West Africa > [noun]

Fulbe1623

Mandingo1623

Akani1662

Gola1670

Ashanti1705

Beninese1705

Wolof1745

Igbo1757

Susu1786

Temne1791

Mossi1819

Ibibio1822

Koranko1825

Vaia1832

Sherbro1836

Yoruba1843

Akan1849

Songhai1851

Yoruban1853

Mitshi1854

Ijo1856

Igbirra1863

Soninke1869

Efik1876

Kanuri1876

Fante1879

Malinke1883

Mande1883

Kissi1884

Nupe1885

Mende1887

Ho1890

Benin1897

Limba1902

Munchi1905

Kono1909

Senufo1911

Tallensi1920

Yakö1926

Mandinka1957

Tiv1960

Togolese1962

Loma1964

1757 St Jago Intelligencer 14 May 1 Ebo, 1 Angola, 1 Mundingo.

1789 O. Equiano Interesting Narr. Life I. i. 18 Mahogany-coloured men from the south west of us: we call them Oye-Eboe, which term signifies red men living at a distance.]

1822 J. Adams Sketches Voy. Afr. iii. 40 To this nation the Heebos express a strong aversion.

1822 J. Adams Sketches Voy. Afr. iii. 41 The Heebos, in their persons, are tall and well-formed.

1822 Amer. Beacon (Norfolk, Va.) 3 Sept. 2/1 Monday Gell is an Ebo, and now in the prime of life.

1836 F. H. Rankin White Man's Grave I. v. 106 Shortly after arriving, when Settlers and Maroons were to me as equally black and undistinguishable as Soosoos and Ibbos, I innocently inflicted deep injury on the sensitive mind of the laundress by inquiring why she had omitted to bring home some particular article of dress.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 223/2 The Ibo are a strong well-built Negro race.

1954 M. Gluckman in Institutions Primitive Soc. vi. 70 In the past, an Ibo in Nigeria could only travel safely in distant parts to trade by following chains of relationship from place to place.

1960 Guardian 15 July 15/3 The Ibos (or better, the Igbos) live mainly in the Eastern Region [of Nigeria].

1961 Listener 30 Nov. 901/2 The intensely individualistic and vital Ibo in the south-east [of Nigeria].

1973 Black World Jan. 9/1 Another example is the figure of Ikenga—god of fortune among the Igbos—in whose left hand is a skull.

b. The language of this people, which constitutes one of the major language groups of Nigeria.

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the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [noun] > Niger-Congo > Niger-Congo proper languages > Kwa family > languages of

Fante1819

Yoruba1841

Ijo1856

Igbirra1863

Fon1864

Ashanti1874

Twi1874

Nupe1877

Igbo1880

Edo1957

1880 J. Sturge tr. A. M. L. Burdo Niger & Benueh viii. 141 ‘The King, our master,’ one of them said to me in the language of Ebo.

1883 R. N. Cust Sketch Mod. Langs. Afr. I. xi. 223 Ibo or eboe: commences at the apex of the Delta of the Niger... There appear to be four dialects.

1950 C. D. Forde & G. I. Jones Ibo & Ibibio-speaking Peoples 11 Igbo is one of the Kwa languages.

1955 P. Strevens Papers in Lang. (1965) ix. 115 The Kwa Larger Unit, comprising such languages as Twi, Ga, Fante, Ewe, Yoruba and Ibo.

1958 J. S. Coleman Nigeria i. 18 Before the British occupation..the present Eastern region consisted of small semiautonomous communities of Ibo- and Ibibio-speaking peoples.

1962 Amer. Speech 37 227 A case of disagreement taken from Ibo, a tone language.

1968 N. Chomsky & M. Halle Sound Pattern Eng. 378 In a language such as Turkish there are four classes of harmonizing words, rather than two as in Nez Perce or Igbo.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	igbo
释义	Igboadj.n. Brit. /ˈiːbəʊ/, U.S. /ˈɪˌboʊ/, West African English /ˈiɡbo/ Forms: Also Ebo, Ibo. Etymology: Self-designation. A. adj. Of or relating to the Igbo people. Cf. Eboe n.Some of the examples refer to Igbos in the U.S.A. and the West Indies. ΘΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of West Africa > [adjective] Akani1686 Ashantian1705 Igbo1732 Mandingo1744 Nago1775 Temne1791 Wolof1828 Nupe1829 Kru1835 Gola1843 Mpongwe1844 Efik1849 Yoruban1853 Mossi1854 Fulbe1857 Ewe1861 Fan1861 Ibibio1862 Akan1863 Fon1864 Soninke1870 Mende1872 Ijo1883 Mande1883 Yoruba1883 Mitshi1892 Benin1893 Munchi1908 Yakö1926 Tallensi1936 Tiv1939 Limba1954 Kissi1957 Loma1957 1732 South Carolina Gaz. 20/1 Stolen..an old Ebo Negro Man;..had on a blue Negro Cloth Frock. 1774 E. Long Hist. Jamaica II. iii. ii. 403 The Ebo men are lazy, and averse to every laborious employment; the women performing almost all the work in their own country. 1799 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 89 163 The Negro women of the Mandingo and Ibbo nations. a1818 M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. India Proprietor (1834) 190 The mortification of the Eboes. 1822 J. Adams Sketches Voy. Afr. iii. 41 Breeché, in the Heebo language, signifies gentleman. 1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 319/1 Soudan and Guinea... Ibo group. 1899 E. A. Wise in Niger & Yoruba Notes Nov. 37/1 We are morally pledged to do this by having a Mission in the Ibo country for over 40 years. 1950 D. Jones Phoneme 21 The Igbo language of Nigeria. 1951 R. Firth Elements Social Organization v. 165 Some of the Ibo people of South-Eastern Nigeria construct elaborate series of clay figures. 1960 Spectator 31 Oct. 616 The squalor and nobility of life in an Ibo tribe. 1968 Listener 19 Sept. 353/1 The Ibo officer who had just murdered the Premier of the Northern Region. 1968 Listener 19 Sept. 353/1 The Ibo leader, Ojukwu, and his five or six million Ibo are now concentrated within a narrowing portion of their former region. B. n. a. A people of the lower Niger region of West Africa; a member of this people. ΘΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of West Africa > [noun] Fulbe1623 Mandingo1623 Akani1662 Gola1670 Ashanti1705 Beninese1705 Wolof1745 Igbo1757 Susu1786 Temne1791 Mossi1819 Ibibio1822 Koranko1825 Vaia1832 Sherbro1836 Yoruba1843 Akan1849 Songhai1851 Yoruban1853 Mitshi1854 Ijo1856 Igbirra1863 Soninke1869 Efik1876 Kanuri1876 Fante1879 Malinke1883 Mande1883 Kissi1884 Nupe1885 Mende1887 Ho1890 Benin1897 Limba1902 Munchi1905 Kono1909 Senufo1911 Tallensi1920 Yakö1926 Mandinka1957 Tiv1960 Togolese1962 Loma1964 1757 St Jago Intelligencer 14 May 1 Ebo, 1 Angola, 1 Mundingo. 1789 O. Equiano Interesting Narr. Life I. i. 18 Mahogany-coloured men from the south west of us: we call them Oye-Eboe, which term signifies red men living at a distance.] 1822 J. Adams Sketches Voy. Afr. iii. 40 To this nation the Heebos express a strong aversion. 1822 J. Adams Sketches Voy. Afr. iii. 41 The Heebos, in their persons, are tall and well-formed. 1822 Amer. Beacon (Norfolk, Va.) 3 Sept. 2/1 Monday Gell is an Ebo, and now in the prime of life. 1836 F. H. Rankin White Man's Grave I. v. 106 Shortly after arriving, when Settlers and Maroons were to me as equally black and undistinguishable as Soosoos and Ibbos, I innocently inflicted deep injury on the sensitive mind of the laundress by inquiring why she had omitted to bring home some particular article of dress. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 223/2 The Ibo are a strong well-built Negro race. 1954 M. Gluckman in Institutions Primitive Soc. vi. 70 In the past, an Ibo in Nigeria could only travel safely in distant parts to trade by following chains of relationship from place to place. 1960 Guardian 15 July 15/3 The Ibos (or better, the Igbos) live mainly in the Eastern Region [of Nigeria]. 1961 Listener 30 Nov. 901/2 The intensely individualistic and vital Ibo in the south-east [of Nigeria]. 1973 Black World Jan. 9/1 Another example is the figure of Ikenga—god of fortune among the Igbos—in whose left hand is a skull. b. The language of this people, which constitutes one of the major language groups of Nigeria. ΘΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [noun] > Niger-Congo > Niger-Congo proper languages > Kwa family > languages of Fante1819 Yoruba1841 Ijo1856 Igbirra1863 Fon1864 Ashanti1874 Twi1874 Nupe1877 Igbo1880 Edo1957 1880 J. Sturge tr. A. M. L. Burdo Niger & Benueh viii. 141 ‘The King, our master,’ one of them said to me in the language of Ebo. 1883 R. N. Cust Sketch Mod. Langs. Afr. I. xi. 223 Ibo or eboe: commences at the apex of the Delta of the Niger... There appear to be four dialects. 1950 C. D. Forde & G. I. Jones Ibo & Ibibio-speaking Peoples 11 Igbo is one of the Kwa languages. 1955 P. Strevens Papers in Lang. (1965) ix. 115 The Kwa Larger Unit, comprising such languages as Twi, Ga, Fante, Ewe, Yoruba and Ibo. 1958 J. S. Coleman Nigeria i. 18 Before the British occupation..the present Eastern region consisted of small semiautonomous communities of Ibo- and Ibibio-speaking peoples. 1962 Amer. Speech 37 227 A case of disagreement taken from Ibo, a tone language. 1968 N. Chomsky & M. Halle Sound Pattern Eng. 378 In a language such as Turkish there are four classes of harmonizing words, rather than two as in Nez Perce or Igbo. 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