Yoruba

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  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, Brazil and Cuba.

Proper noun

 * 1) A sub- language. It belongs to the  branch of the  language family, and has nearly 40 million speakers in Nigeria, Benin, Togo, and Sierra Leone, as well as communities in Brazil and Cuba.
 * 2) An African traditional religion which spawned various offshoots in the Americas in the 15th to 19th centuries, including santería and Lucumí. (See .)
 * 1) An African traditional religion which spawned various offshoots in the Americas in the 15th to 19th centuries, including santería and Lucumí. (See .)

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: йору́ба
 * Catalan: ioruba
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 約魯巴語
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: ioruba
 * Georgian: იორუბა
 * German:
 * Irish: Iarúibis
 * Japanese:
 * Marathi: योरुबा
 * Nupe: Èyàgi
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, , , , nagô
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, nago
 * Swahili: Kiyoruba
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Yoruba: Yorùbá


 * Finnish:
 * Irish: Iarúbach
 * Marathi: योरुबा


 * Serbo-Croatian: /

Etymology
Of unclear and disputed origin, it is likely that it was derived from an exonym from neighboring groups to the north, such as Hausa, Fulani, or Bariba. Various implausible etymologies have been proposed, often used to insult the Yoruba people or support supposed Middle Eastern or Jewish origins of the Yoruba people. What is certain is that the term was used originally in reference to only the people (a subgroup of the Yoruba ethnic group) and the, and did not become used to refer to all Yoruba peoples until the late 19th century during attempts to foster a common ethnic identity. Etymological theories include:
 * Several folk etymologies associate the term from coming from Hausa or Fula slurs of Yoruba people, such as meaning "One who cheats," referring to the supposed deceitful tactics Yoruba traders used, or  meaning "Bad or rotten person." These has been dismissed and proscribed by most Yoruba scholars, however, the Yoruba term  is derived from the first etymology, but is not to be mistaken with "Yoruba."
 * According to linguist Kọlá Túbọ̀sún, it ultimately derives from a contraction of "Children of the Ọba", (referring to the  of Oyo).
 * A newly proposed theory suggests it is a reborrowing from the word, a Yoruba subethnic group, borrowed into the Nupe and Hausa languages, where it became , and then reborrowed from

Proper noun

 * 1)   subethnic group
 * 1)   subethnic group
 * 1)   subethnic group
 * 1)   subethnic group
 * 1)   subethnic group
 * 1)   subethnic group