Azboy34: Nawa o.. Is there no HAUSA TRIBE in dis room?

Well, maybe they are busy relocating to niger, cameroun, chad or the nearest republic ever since they heard you wanna eat them.

Azboy34: Cus i need somebody to tell me d meaning of d follown words in hausa lang... Firstly, what z gud evening in hausa lang?

Ehm, it is "ina wuni"

Azboy34: Secondly, how do i say "how av been ur day in hausa lang?

"Dafatan ka(he)/kin(she) wuni lafiya.

This has been plaguing me since the beginning of this year and has caused me to come seek enlightenment on this forum with the hopes knowledgeable persons in yoruba traditions and cultural values will be able to shed extensive light and thereby broaden my horizon.

Early this year, a close relative came to visit we had a few important discussions. Just as she was leaving, she turned and said "all these things are happening for a reason. The signs are too obvious. Shey o mo pe akanda omo ni e?"... I being poor in yoruba couldn't grasp the meaning but pretended to understand so as not to be seen as dull in front of my other family members. After she had left, I asked an uncle what “Akanda Omo” meant and all he just said was that it means a special person. I didn't find this answer satisfying but I kept shut and didn't prod further.

This leads me to ask the following questions;
1. What does Akanda mean?

2. What are the factors that can make someone be called an Akanda?

3.What relevance does it have upon the life of the person being called Akanda?

4. Is it a good or bad thing?

5. Any stories that could shed more light on it and enable me further grasp?

I sincerely hope my questions would be extensively answered in the shortest possible time. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks a lot...

Simple Igbo phrase I don't sabi, e be

'Odi kwa mma'.

It sounds like a question some times, but sometimes it sounds like a response. Any enlightenment is appreciated.

Daalu from a non-Igbo speaker.

Chimaaba: Simple Igbo phrase I don't sabi, e be

'Odi kwa mma'.

It sounds like a question some times, but sometimes it sounds like a response. Any enlightenment is appreciated.

Daalu from a non-Igbo speaker.

Igbo is a tonal language hence the tone decides when its a statement or question. However,the suffix "kwa" more often than not,makes it a question.
O di kwa nma? = question
O di nma = statement/response to question.

To my Yoruba peeps,please is adigboluja a yoruba word?If yes,what does it mean?
Thanks

ifyalways: To my Yoruba peeps,please is adigboluja a yoruba word?If yes,what does it mean?
Thanks

I believe it means: something in the lines of a "fighter".

StarFlux: I believe it means: something in the lines of a "fighter".

Thanks.

A similar word exists in Igbo language and I believe its a borrowed word . In Igbo dibia adigboloja means an ill-equipped native doctor.

Just some corrections for Eboe peeps
It is
Omo not Umu
Omonna not Umunna
Ile NOT Ala
Enu NOT Onu
Elo not ole
pe not Kpo
Akpo not Akpa
Ewure not Ewu
Ibi not eba
Kini not Gini

Ibi ahin not ebe ahun
Ibi ewo or Ib'o ? Not Ebee?
Afefe NoT Ifufu
N'gbo NOT Mbo
Please learn how to speak correctly

ifyalways:
Thanks.

A similar word exists in Igbo language and I believe its a borrowed word . In Igbo dibia adigboloja means an ill-equipped native doctor.

Hmm, interesting. I wonder if that is the original meaning or if it was changed.

StarFlux: Hmm, interesting. I wonder if that is the original meaning or if it was changed.

Me too.

Omonna da ,the time you spend trolling you is enough for you to answer my question. All this love for Igbo's? We loff you too.

Please what are the meaning of these hausa language in english........ Kada kada, falafala, ba awunri, ya akurdi, masoya/masoyina, inaso sia doya, inazua, yarima, dansaki, nagode, mugode, yari, yariya, godiya, ya makanrata, nikati, allah sia hey......

ifyalways:
Thanks.

A similar word exists in Igbo language and I believe its a borrowed word . In Igbo dibia adigboloja means an ill-equipped native doctor.

in yoruba adigboloja means a group that gather to go for a fight

odumchi:

Ndeewo.

ifyalways said ehihie oma
i beg wic 1 naa.
Abi y una dey scata my brain

lol.. this topic is on fire

Miner13:
ifyalways said ehihie oma
i beg wic 1 naa.
Abi y una dey scata my brain

'Ehihie oma' is not correct. 'Ehihie' is the Igbo word for 'afternoon' and 'oma' is the Igbo word for 'good' but that does not necessarily mean that the way Igbos greet each other in the daytime must be translated literally as 'good afternoon'. I hope you understand what I mean.

The proper way to translate something in a language is not to do so literally, but to find the ideological equivalent.

Here are the ideological equivalents of various English greetings in Igbo.

Good morning - I saala chi; I boola chi; I tetela

Miner13:
ifyalways said ehihie oma
i beg wic 1 naa.
Abi y una dey scata my brain

'Ehihie oma' is not correct. 'Ehihie' is the Igbo word for 'afternoon' and 'oma' is the Igbo word for 'good' but that does not necessarily mean that the way Igbos greet each other in the daytime must be translated literally as 'good afternoon'. I hope you understand what I mean.

The proper way to translate something in a language is not to do so literally, but to find the ideological equivalent.

Here are the ideological equivalents of various English greetings in Igbo.

Good morning - I saala chi; I boola chi; I tetela; I putala; I hiala; nnaawo.

Anytime in between morning and night - ndeewo.

Good night - ka chi foo; ka chi voo; ka chi whoo.

odumchi:

'Ehihie oma' is not correct. 'Ehihie' is the Igbo word for 'afternoon' and 'oma' is the Igbo word for 'good' but that does not necessarily mean that the way Igbos greet each other in the daytime must be translated literally as 'good afternoon'. I hope you understand what I mean.

The proper way to translate something in a language is not to do so literally, but to find the ideological equivalent.

Here are the ideological equivalents of various English greetings in Igbo.

Good morning - I saala chi; I boola chi; I tetela; I putala; I hiala; nnaawo.

Anytime in between morning and night - ndeewo.

Good night - ka chi foo; ka chi voo; ka chi whoo.

I don't think I've heard the bolded before. Please, which communities use them? (I'm familiar with some communities that say something that sound close to 'I hiala' though.)

Radoillo:

I don't think I've heard the bolded before. Please, which communities use them? (I'm familiar with some communities that say something that sound close to 'I hiala' though.)

'I hiala' is used around Ngor Okpuala. 'Nnaawo' is used in Arochukwu and neighboring communities.

odumchi:

'I hiala' is used around Ngor Okpuala. 'Nnaawo' is used in Arochukwu and neighboring communities.

Interesting. Especially the 'I hiala' bit.

Radoillo: Interesting. Especially the 'I hiala' bit.

How so?

ChinenyeN:
How so?

Well, I came across 'I wiala' while staying briefly in Port Harcourt, and I quickly assumed it was one of the differentiating markers between their speech and the speech of those of us in the Southeast. I'm just a bit surprised a similar-sounding greeting is used in Imo State, that's all.

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Radoillo:

Well, I came across 'I wiala' while staying briefly in Port Harcourt, and I quickly assumed it was one of the differentiating markers between their speech and the speech of those of us in the Southeast. I'm just a bit surprised a similar-sounding greeting is used in Imo State, that's all.

The dialects spoken in the Ngor-Okpuala/Egbema axis of Imo are very similar to those spoken in Rivers, so it shouldn't come as a surprise.

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Radoillo: Well, I came across 'I wiala' while staying briefly in Port Harcourt, and I quickly assumed it was one of the differentiating markers between their speech and the speech of those of us in the Southeast. I'm just a bit surprised a similar-sounding greeting is used in Imo State, that's all.

Oh, okay.

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I am in the middle here since I couldn't find direct indigenous words for somethings. There are many of these words which are said unnoticedly romancing it foreign lingua thereby loosing it original or local dialects. Here are some fruits which i couldn't find Yoruba word for;

Cashew
Tangerine
Fruit
Mango
Water Melon

I didn't include Apple because it not a fruit found here on our soil. Been that it is imported, foreign names would be imported too. What are the indigenous names for the fruits listed above? If the names could not be provided, does that mean the fruits were foreign fruits or the indigenous words for them are extinct? Would also appreciate other Indigenous names apart from Yoruba which those fruits are called.