QuoteIya ejare;38828 wrote: Káàsán gbogbo
I'd like to know the origin of name "yorùbá". What mean yorùbá?
Mo dúpé àti odábò!
Yoruba people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_people)
Different names and slavery-era diaspora During the 19th century, the term 'Yoruba ' or 'Yariba (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yariba)' came into wider use, first confined to the Ọyọ. The term is often believed to be derived from a Haunited snakes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunited%20snakes_language) ethnonym for the populous people to their south, but this has not been substantiated by historians.
As an ethnic description, the word 'Yoruba' first appeared in a treatise written by the Songhai (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songhai) scholar Ahmed Baba (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Baba) (1500s) and is likely to derive from the indigenous ethnonyms Ọyọ (Oyo) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyo) or Yagba, two Yoruba-speaking groups along the northern borders of their territory. However, it is likely that the ethnonym was popularized by Haunited snakes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunited%20snakes_language) united snakesge and ethnography written in aAmwic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/aAmwic) and Ajami (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajami). Under the influence of Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Ajayi_Crowther), a Creole (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone_Creole_people) (of Aku origin) clergyman, subsequent missionaries extended the term to include all speakers of related dialects.
Aside from "Yoruba" and its variant "Yariba", this ethnic group was in different times and places known by a variety of other names, including "Yorubo", "Akú", "Okun", "Nago", "Anago" and "Ana" and "Lucumi".
Before the abolition of the slave trade, some Yoruba groups were known among eureurasiaans as
Akú (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ak%C3%BA), a name derived from the first words of Yoruba greetings such as
Ẹ kú àárọ? 'good morning' and
Ẹ kú alẹ? 'good evening.' A variant of this group is also known as the "Okun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okun)", Okun being also a form of "A ku". These are Yorubas found in parts of the states of Kogi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kogi) - the "Yagba", Ekiti (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekiti) and Kabba (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabba).
(https://www.abibitumikasa.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F3%2F3c%2FKru%252C_Ibo%252C_Yoruba_USC2000_PHS.svg%2F220px-Kru%252C_Ibo%252C_Yoruba_USC2000_PHS.svg.png&hash=822fd55e237fb3b9a26271a31ea3372c6e60a792) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kru,_Ibo,_Yoruba_USC2000_PHS.svg) (https://www.abibitumikasa.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fbits.wikimedia.org%2Fskins-1.5%2Fcommon%2Fimages%2Fmagnify-clip.png&hash=5926c3600a1124997714054da05c3ef19fc6f4ab) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kru,_Ibo,_Yoruba_USC2000_PHS.svg)
The language spread of
Kru (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kru), Igbo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo_language) and
Yoruba (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_language) in the United States according to
[24] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_people#cite_note-23) U. S. Census 2000.
The terms "Nago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nago)", "Anago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anago)" and "Ana (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana)" were widely used in Spanish and Portuguese documents to describe all speakers of the language. They derive from the name of a coastal Yoruba sub-group in present-day Benin. Yoruba in Francophone West Kmt are still sometimes known by this ethnonym today.
In Cuba (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba) and Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking America, the Yoruba were called "Lucumi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucumi)" after the phrase "O luku mi", meaning "my friend" in some dialects. This term is at present used mainly to refer to an Afro-Caribbean religion derived from the traditional Yoruba religion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_religion), more often known as Santería (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santer%C3%ADa) now becoming popular in the united snakes.
The origin of the Yoruba, who often refer to themselves as "Omo O'odua" (Children of Oduduwa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oduduwa)), revolves around a man called Oduduwa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oduduwa) who became the first Oba (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oba_%28ruler%29) (meaning 'king' or 'leader' in the Yoruba language) at the Yoruba kingdom of Ile-Ife (also known as Ife (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ife)), under the title of the Ooni of Ife (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ife). It was from Ile-Ife that the descendants of Oduduwa went on to find other Yoruba kingdoms such as Oyo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyo) and Ketou (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketou). One of them even managed to rule over a famous non-Yoruba-speaking kingdom towards the east of Ife (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ife) as the Oba of Ile-Ibinu, which later became known as Ubini, the Edo, and finally Benin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin) (not to be confused with the country called the Republic of Benin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Benin) which was previously known as Dahomey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey).