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Definition of Yoruba in English: YorubanounPlural Yorubas ˈjɒrʊbəˈyôrəbə 1A member of an African people of south-western Nigeria and Benin. Example sentencesExamples - The colored kerchiefs of the women are in the style of the Yoruba of Nigeria.
- He argues that Yorubas have a three-part view of a person.
- The book concludes with an overview of the fashionable world of the Yoruba.
- The Yoruba use the same term, dun, for a palatable meal and a memorable spectacle, both arousing a desire for more.
- He talks only briefly about his experience photographing the Yoruba and offers no commentary on his black-and-white photographs that illustrate the chapter.
- In July 1999 clashes between Hausas and local Yorubas in Shagamu, north of Lagos, resulted in around 60 deaths.
- The role of women must be noted as a complex element of Yoruba society and one that is reflected in cultures of the Egyptians, the Igbo as well as the Yoruba.
- In the land of the Yoruba, in Western Africa, there lived a mighty queen.
- The latter, roughly translated as the masters of medicine, herbalists, or alternative medical doctors, are the repositories of the collective wisdom, experience, and traditions of the Yoruba.
- Fighting between ethnic Yorubas and Hausas erupted in Ajegunle district here on Sunday and continued to Tuesday.
- The Hausas dominate Nigeria's north, the Yorubas the southwest.
- He wore his hair unusually long for a Yoruba, and he had the filed upper teeth of the Gun, his mother's people.
- The Africans began to see themselves not as Hausas, Igbos, or Yorubas, but as Nigerians in a common struggle against their colonial rulers.
- The three major groups are the Hausa and Fulani in the north, the Yoruba in the west, and the Igbo in the east.
- The proportion of Yorubas in Nigeria who are Muslim, Catholic, or Protestant or who subscribe to traditional beliefs or animism is not stated.
- Nigeria is home to 120 million people divided among 250 ethnic groups dominated by the Hausas of the north, the Yorubas of the west and the Ibos in the east.
- Kinship is the most important relationship for the Yorubas.
- Among the Yorubas, the Olola families are the traditional circumcisers and the trade is handed down from generation to generation.
- I find it ironic that someone once so dedicated to moving the Yoruba into the modern, postcolonial world would be so unaccepting of the results of that globalizing trajectory.
- While the influence of Fela's music has been pin-pointed, his spiritualism and contemporary take on Yoruba culture was extraordinary.
2mass noun The language of the Yoruba, which belongs to the Kwa group. It is an official language of Nigeria, with over 16 million speakers. Example sentencesExamples - Fifty percent of the population speaks Fon; other important languages include Yoruba, Aja, Mina, Goun, Bariba, Dendi, Ditamarri, Nateni, and Fulfulde.
- For readers conversant in Yoruba, comparing those original texts to their English translations will be an invaluable, but sometimes troubling, exercise.
- The point of a talking drum is to make noises which sound like words spoken in a tonal language - like Yoruba.
- Today those who are not ethnic Yorubas or Igbos rarely speak Yoruba or Igbo.
- These songs in turn include 20 stanzas in Yoruba and 10 stanzas that mix Yoruba with Spanish.
- My brother was raised over there so he speaks Yoruba which is akin to speaking Welsh or Gaelic.
- There are plenty of endangered languages among the 505 that Ethnologue lists in Nigeria, but Yoruba is not one of them.
- Belonging to the Kwa group of languages, Yoruba is a tonal tongue.
- They are broadcast in English, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba and Pidgin English.
- Fluent in Yoruba, George brings a linguistic command to readings of Fagunwa that are necessarily lost on Anglophone readers of this important Nigerian writer.
- Tone does not distinguish verbs like in Yoruba.
- English has a lot of ideophonic words, but it doesn't really seem to have an ideophonic system of the kind that Japanese or Korean or Yoruba have.
- Arabic, Yoruba, Bhojpuri, Urdu and other languages are used in religious contexts, and the traditional Christmas music called parang is sung in Spanish.
- She is a three-time Grammy nominee who sings in English, French and two African languages, Yoruba and Fon.
- Female voices break out in Yoruba, and Chuckie Joseph sings his ‘Agua Dulce’ over solo guitar.
adjective ˈjɒrʊbəˈyôrəbə Relating to the Yoruba or their language. Example sentencesExamples - Later I was told that 25,000 members of the OPC Youth Wing had descended on the Apapa Port to defend the rights of Yoruba dock workers fired by the new non-Yoruba union boss.
- Hustu de la Madrid, better known as El Negro, chants out something in the Yoruba language as he tosses four pieces of coconut shells onto the floor to talk to the spirits.
- Although ten out of twelve major media institutions are located in Lagos, only two of these, the Punch and the Comet, have Yoruba proprietors.
Definition of Yoruba in US English: Yorubanounˈyôrəbə 1A member of an African people of southwestern Nigeria and Benin. Example sentencesExamples - He wore his hair unusually long for a Yoruba, and he had the filed upper teeth of the Gun, his mother's people.
- He argues that Yorubas have a three-part view of a person.
- He talks only briefly about his experience photographing the Yoruba and offers no commentary on his black-and-white photographs that illustrate the chapter.
- In the land of the Yoruba, in Western Africa, there lived a mighty queen.
- The three major groups are the Hausa and Fulani in the north, the Yoruba in the west, and the Igbo in the east.
- The proportion of Yorubas in Nigeria who are Muslim, Catholic, or Protestant or who subscribe to traditional beliefs or animism is not stated.
- Nigeria is home to 120 million people divided among 250 ethnic groups dominated by the Hausas of the north, the Yorubas of the west and the Ibos in the east.
- The Yoruba use the same term, dun, for a palatable meal and a memorable spectacle, both arousing a desire for more.
- Fighting between ethnic Yorubas and Hausas erupted in Ajegunle district here on Sunday and continued to Tuesday.
- I find it ironic that someone once so dedicated to moving the Yoruba into the modern, postcolonial world would be so unaccepting of the results of that globalizing trajectory.
- While the influence of Fela's music has been pin-pointed, his spiritualism and contemporary take on Yoruba culture was extraordinary.
- Among the Yorubas, the Olola families are the traditional circumcisers and the trade is handed down from generation to generation.
- The colored kerchiefs of the women are in the style of the Yoruba of Nigeria.
- The Africans began to see themselves not as Hausas, Igbos, or Yorubas, but as Nigerians in a common struggle against their colonial rulers.
- The book concludes with an overview of the fashionable world of the Yoruba.
- In July 1999 clashes between Hausas and local Yorubas in Shagamu, north of Lagos, resulted in around 60 deaths.
- The role of women must be noted as a complex element of Yoruba society and one that is reflected in cultures of the Egyptians, the Igbo as well as the Yoruba.
- Kinship is the most important relationship for the Yorubas.
- The Hausas dominate Nigeria's north, the Yorubas the southwest.
- The latter, roughly translated as the masters of medicine, herbalists, or alternative medical doctors, are the repositories of the collective wisdom, experience, and traditions of the Yoruba.
2The Kwa language of the Yoruba, and an official language of Nigeria. Example sentencesExamples - Belonging to the Kwa group of languages, Yoruba is a tonal tongue.
- For readers conversant in Yoruba, comparing those original texts to their English translations will be an invaluable, but sometimes troubling, exercise.
- She is a three-time Grammy nominee who sings in English, French and two African languages, Yoruba and Fon.
- Fifty percent of the population speaks Fon; other important languages include Yoruba, Aja, Mina, Goun, Bariba, Dendi, Ditamarri, Nateni, and Fulfulde.
- Fluent in Yoruba, George brings a linguistic command to readings of Fagunwa that are necessarily lost on Anglophone readers of this important Nigerian writer.
- My brother was raised over there so he speaks Yoruba which is akin to speaking Welsh or Gaelic.
- Today those who are not ethnic Yorubas or Igbos rarely speak Yoruba or Igbo.
- The point of a talking drum is to make noises which sound like words spoken in a tonal language - like Yoruba.
- They are broadcast in English, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba and Pidgin English.
- Tone does not distinguish verbs like in Yoruba.
- Female voices break out in Yoruba, and Chuckie Joseph sings his ‘Agua Dulce’ over solo guitar.
- These songs in turn include 20 stanzas in Yoruba and 10 stanzas that mix Yoruba with Spanish.
- Arabic, Yoruba, Bhojpuri, Urdu and other languages are used in religious contexts, and the traditional Christmas music called parang is sung in Spanish.
- English has a lot of ideophonic words, but it doesn't really seem to have an ideophonic system of the kind that Japanese or Korean or Yoruba have.
- There are plenty of endangered languages among the 505 that Ethnologue lists in Nigeria, but Yoruba is not one of them.
adjectiveˈyôrəbə Relating to the Yoruba or their language. Example sentencesExamples - Although ten out of twelve major media institutions are located in Lagos, only two of these, the Punch and the Comet, have Yoruba proprietors.
- Hustu de la Madrid, better known as El Negro, chants out something in the Yoruba language as he tosses four pieces of coconut shells onto the floor to talk to the spirits.
- Later I was told that 25,000 members of the OPC Youth Wing had descended on the Apapa Port to defend the rights of Yoruba dock workers fired by the new non-Yoruba union boss.
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