yoruba
/ˈjɔːɹəbə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.11 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A member of an ethnic group or tribe living mainly in southwest Nigeria, southern Benin, and eastern Togo and, as well as in communities elsewhere in West Africa, United States, Brazil and Cuba.
name
A sub-Saharan language. It belongs to the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family, and has nearly 40 million speakers in Nigeria, Benin, Togo, and Sierra Leone, as well as communities in The United States, Brazil and Cuba.
Example Sentences
- "Approximately 40 percent of Yorubas in Nigeria are Muslim and 60 percent are Christian. […] Its members express a strong preference for being among Yorubas during their worship service: “Since I am a Yoruba and we Yorubas have our own Church. . . .""
- "In the parlour, she could hear Aunty Biola attempting to teach her father Yoruba, collapsing into helpless giggles whenever he mispronounced his vowels, giving them the flat English sound instead of lifting them upwards with the slight outward puff of breath that was required."
- "Comparative wordlists of two dialects of Yoruba with Igala."
- "The Yoruba practitioner describes it as a condition where a man's semen will flow out of the vagina before fertilization can take place."
- "The Yoruba practitioner has no difficulty in knowing the difference between what we have classified as magic, medicine or sorcery."
- "This is because when the Yoruba practitioner heals a stomach ache, he uses medicine, when he protects someone from accident, he uses magic, and when he invokes for the purpose of harming or killing a person, he uses sorcery."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈjɔːɹəbə/
- British English: /ˈjɒɹʊbə/
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Religion.
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
Wiktionary’s coverage of Yoruba terms
Frequently Paired Words
Wiktionary’s coverage of Yoruba terms