Yoruba

[yawr-uh-buh, yohr-]

noun, plural Yo·ru·bas, (especially collectively) Yo·ru·ba for 1.

a member of a numerous West African coastal people.
the language of the Yoruba, a Kwa language.

Related formsYo·ru·ban, adjective

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Examples from the Web for yoruba

Contemporary Examples of yoruba

This is why Americans speak English even though more of us are ethnically German or Yoruba.
Can Walmart Change?
Megan McArdle
November 29, 2012
And Marta Moreno Vega, an Afro-Caribbean expert on Yoruba philosophy, seems to dare you to sum up her ethnicity.
The Latin Look
Blake Gopnik
August 19, 2011

Historical Examples of yoruba

The Yoruba country is between the other two I have mentioned.
The Three Midshipmen
W.H.G. Kingston
The Yoruba country was the chief scene of their hunting expeditions.
Tales of the Sea
W.H.G. Kingston
In the Egba tribes of the Yoruba country they become objects of worship.
Fetichism in West Africa
Robert Hamill Nassau
Whether or no to place Benin with Yoruba or with Calabar is a problem.
West African studies
Mary Henrietta Kingsley
There is, no doubt, a very close connection between it and Yoruba.
West African studies
Mary Henrietta Kingsley

British Dictionary definitions for yoruba

Yoruba

noun

plural -bas or -ba a member of a Negroid people of W Africa, living chiefly in the coastal regions of SW Nigeria: noted for their former city states and complex material culture, particularly as evidenced in their music, art, and sculpture
the language of this people, belonging to the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family

Derived FormsYoruban, adjective

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