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Omodiagbe is a combination of three different words in the Esan dialect (language). The three words are: “ Omo” - meaning “child” “ dia” - meaning “to straighten” “ Ogbe” - meaning “clan” or “family” The name Omodiagbe reflects the importance of children in societies and families.
The Omoluwabi concept is an adjectival Yoruba phrase, which has the words - "Omo + ti + Olu-iwa + bi" as its components. Literally translated and taken separately, omo means 'child', ti means 'that or which', Olu-iwa meaning the chief or master of Iwa (character), bi means 'born'. When combined, Omoluabi translates as "the child begotten by the ...
Tunde audio ⓘ is a unisex name, originally a diminutive form of a Yoruba name for a native of Nigeria which also means "returns". Hence, when Tunde is combined with other Yoruba words such as Baba (father) or Yeye/Iya/Mama (mother) to form Babatunde and Yetunde respectively, the meaning becomes 'father or mother has returned'.
Omoba, or Oba, derived from the Yoruba language word meaning king, is a pre-nominal honorific used by kings in the Yoruba Kingdom and later adopted by kings in Benin Kingdom. Omoba may also refer to: Omoba, Abia, a town in Isiala Ngwa South, Abia State, Nigeria; D'Prince (born 1986), or Omoba, Nigerian singer
[9] Unu has also found its way to Jamaican patois and Sranantongo (Surinamese Creole) with the same meaning as in Nigerian Pidgin. Igbo biko, meaning "please." For example, the sentence Biko free me means "Please leave me alone". Yoruba oga equivalent to the English term "my boss or my mentor", has been adopted from the Yoruba word oga.
The omo forest reserve was established in 1925 and covers about 130,500 hectares.which was constituted during the British colonial era.it was initially set-up for conservation of timber resources for commercial exploitation.afterwards the reserve focus shifted towards conservation of biodiversity and protection of endangered species.which made the area ecological value becomes more important ...
The Owu sub-ethnicity is a part of the Yoruba people of West Africa. Ago-Owu in Abeokuta is where the Owus are mostly concentrated, however large Owu settlements are found throughout Yorubaland.
The Omotic languages are a group of languages spoken in southwestern Ethiopia, in the Omo River region and southeastern Sudan in Blue Nile State. The Geʽez script is used to write some of the Omotic languages, the Latin script for some others. They are fairly agglutinative and have complex tonal systems (for example, the Bench language).