D name na okuko

Interesting; normally i wouldnt have commented on this post but .. did anyone notice? No insults or abuses? Thanks to the poster though; lovely distraction

In Benin, It's called Iy'okhokho or simply Okhokho.

coogar:

what's this one? cöck or hen?

dis 1 na dat national cake

dayokanu: Adiye or Adire

OR KAMPALA

dayokanu:

Yoruba is a tonal language and it depends on the tone it comes out

Ogun means drug, Ogun means war, Ogun means Inheritance, ogun means 20, Ogun is also a river, Ogun is also a god of iron

diacriticsm distincts them. Like igba: calabash, time, 200, and one edible fruit like dt

Hausa - Zakara

dinner

Ajuwei - Igala

dayokanu: Adiye or Adire

So in your own village, they call fowl "adire"?
SMH

In esan language it is called okhokho

Adiye, akuko, adie etc. . . who cares? That shoittt will complete my chicken noodle soup.

in Kadung is Nakuri from Pankshin in Plateau state

dayokanu: Adiye or Adire

I vehemently disagree.
Any Yoruba man/woman that call a fowl 'adire' is suffering from speech disorder.
Its called adiye.

Okiki_Oluwa: I vehemently disagree.
Any Yoruba man/woman that call a fowl 'adire' is suffering from speech disorder.
Its called adiye.

Stop it.

Some Lagosians (who are indigenes of Lagos) can't say their "r", so they call it adie.

We Ekitis call it Adiye.

Well in my own lang(ondo),we call fowl ajie,while yoruba parapo call it adie and not adiye.

It is called Agbebo Adie.

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soye35: Well in my own lang(ondo),we call fowl ajie,while yoruba parapo call it adie and not adiye.

Wait, your Ondo people can call it ajie (NEVER heard of that), but other Yoruba dialects can't call it "Adiye"?

Hmm.

Ekiti = Adiye.

Orkhor in Edo (Auchi)

Adiye - Yoruba.

InvertedHammer:

Igbo: Nnekwu

Nnekwu okuko,nwanne.
Somebody actually said Okuko....smh

nawa oooo anytn fit be frontpage for nairaland.


Wetin una go call this one 4 una village?

ItsModella:
huh? which Igbo is this one? nnekwu what?

Nnekwu okuko in Anambra/Idenmili Igbo. The he one is diokpa.

Ogba: nnunu

Eremina~a oboko (Kalabari language/Rivers state)

"Ngo-ikyegh" in Tiv

I pity Igbo people wey dey Yoruba and forgot everything how can you call tradition cock "okuko" for your information it is called "okuko Igbo" that is how they get half mark during exam.

Adiye! is the general name for chickens but the male one is called "akuko" while this one that is female is called "agbebo"

dayokanu:

Adire (Chicken) with the tone (re-do-re) Adire is (do-do-re)

claps for you my dear. Quite a musical expalanation that guided me now in pronouncing it well and differentiating between it and the adire of cloth.

dayokanu:

Yoruba is a tonal language and it depends on the tone it comes out

Ogun means drug, Ogun means war, Ogun means Inheritance, ogun means 20, Ogun is also a river, Ogun is also a god of iron

Exactly why I couldnt learn yoruba during my NYSC days in Osun! I think a yoruba wife will help me out in that regard.

Igbos here this is the real name- oke okpa.