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Etymology
Among the archaic terms for "king," "monarch," or "leader," originally widespread in most Yoruba dialects, now mainly restricted to oral poetry, songs of deities like , and use in old names and surnames like  or. The term seemed to have been used quite commonly among the Ìjẹ̀bú, while it has been archaic in most other dialects, (especially the non-nasalized form ).

See, which is a similar archaic term for king among the and  people.

Noun
or


 * 1)  king, leader; the first person to a location