EmpressaDelRei: I see you re from edo state! I ve never used or heard the word Ozeba! This is my 1st seeing it! Palaver is an English word for trouble/worrysome. Ororo is a yoruba word for vegetable oil. Pangolo too is a yoruba word for tin. Because of nearness (proximity) of the Igbos to the coastal areas in the Niger delta (old eastern Nigeria province), when merchants/sailors brought in fairly used clothing and wares to the country people from the east would travel down to a town in now Rivers state (Okrika) to purchase goods which they would come back and resell in their own towns. In those days, the name "okrika" was used in describing the place the goods was bought, to enable customers/buyers know the quality of the wares. Trading through the okrika route is no longer practiced (not to my knowledge), but the name is now wrongly used in describing fairly used or inferior clothing. And accessories. God bless Okrika.

barcanista: Amen!!!! God bless Okrika and the Ijaw Nation

AbuMikey:

Chairman

nyt3237: Nice thrend op. very educational

pussypounder: I be yoruba boy but what is with all this IBO-YORUBA shit....i hate tribalism, stop shebe
#pussypoundersaidso#

Burnaaboi: Joblessness at its peak! real one

boombay: MAMA SEUN... ABEG PUT RICE N120 BEANS N20 SPAG N20 DODO N20... ABEG HELP THROW FISH 2 AND ONE POMO WEY RAPE STEW WELLA... AND ONE PURE WATER WEY DEM IMPRISON FOR FRIDGE SINCE LAST WEEK!!

Iriruaga100: This work is not complete without the people of itsekiri in warri, the urhobo's frm sapele nd the bini's who had first contact with the portugese nd transferred to them the slang. I will give the OP a big F, if this was a project work.

rocgirl: Lol..

Amebo: A gossiper...(Delta)
Okpelenge: Used to describe a thin person. Origination? Unknown.
Nyansh: The *coughs*,and most recently,used to denote seX. (Can't tell what language it originated from).
Lai-Lai: Means saying'no',showing 'disapproval' or 'disagreeing' to something. (It's an hausa word.)
Blon-Blon: Balloon (English)
Sh.it: Excreta(English)
Mess: Farting (Don't know)
Kelembe: Mucus. (Yoruba)

neuljosh: Naijá Pigin is open to a lot of influences from English and local Nigerian languages, especially from Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba and the Edo and other group of languages spoken in the Niger Delta.

While much of the vocabulary of Naijá Pigin is derived from English its major lexifier, the rest of the vocabulary come from its other contributory languages such as Edo, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba, as well as a significant contribution from Portuguese. See the following examples.

From English:

chop------------‘to eat/to consume’
domot----------- ‘door mouth area’
doti-------------‘dirt’
pesin------------ ‘someone’
trowe------------‘throw away’
tok---------------‘to speak’
waka-------------‘to walk’

From the Edo:

kpangolo----------'container’
kpekere-----------‘plantain chips’
okada-------------‘motor-bike’
ororo--------------‘vegetable oil’
ozeba-------------‘a big problem’

From Hausa:

dabaru-----------‘to destroy’
dogo-------------‘a tall person’
gworo------------‘cola nut’
koboko-----------‘horse whip’
suya-------------‘spicy grilled meat’

From Igbo:

akamu----------- ‘corn starch /pap’
biko--------------‘please’
obodo------------‘land/country’
okrika------------‘second-handed item’
ogbanje----------‘a water spirit’
ugu--------------‘pumpkin leaves’

From Yoruba:

adire-------------‘tie and dye’
agbo-------------‘herbal medicine’
ashawo----------‘a prostitute’
shakara----------‘show-off’
she--------------‘hope’
shele-------------‘happen/take place’

From Portuguese:

kpalava-----------`trouble’
pikin-------------- ‘child’
sabi-------------- ‘to know’

Compounding

akara-wuman---------- Yoruba/Igbo+English---------------- ‘a women who fries and sells bean cakes’
boku-bai--------------- French + English-------------- ‘wholesale’
egbe-weja------------- Edo + English----------------- ‘a bouncer at a club, a thug or hoodlum’
go-slo----------------- English + English-------------- ‘traffic jam’
ova-sabi--------------- English+Portuguese----------- ‘one who shows he knows too much’

boku∙boku------------- French---------- ‘in large number’
boi∙boi---------------- English---------------- ‘a male household servant’
sabi∙sabi-------------- Portuguese------------ ‘someone who thinks he or she knows everything’
waka∙waka------------ English---------------- ‘someone who about aimlessly or without any destination’ or ‘a prostitute’

rocgirl: Lol..

Amebo: A gossiper...(Delta)
Okpelenge: Used to describe a thin person. Origination? Unknown.
Nyansh: The *coughs*,and most recently,used to denote seX. (Can't tell what language it originated from).
Lai-Lai: Means saying'no',showing 'disapproval' or 'disagreeing' to something. (It's an hausa word.)
Blon-Blon: Balloon (English)
Sh.it: Excreta(English)
Mess: Farting (Don't know)
Kelembe: Mucus. (Yoruba)

rocgirl: Lol..

Amebo: A gossiper...(Delta)
Okpelenge: Used to describe a thin person. Origination? Unknown.
Nyansh: The *coughs*,and most recently,used to denote seX. (Can't tell what language it originated from).
Lai-Lai: Means saying'no',showing 'disapproval' or 'disagreeing' to something. (It's an hausa word.)
Blon-Blon: Balloon (English)
Sh.it: Excreta(English)
Mess: Farting (Don't know)
Kelembe: Mucus. (Yoruba)

rocgirl: Lol..
Amebo: A gossiper...(Delta)
Okpelenge: Used to describe a thin person. Origination? Unknown.
Nyansh: The *coughs*,and most recently,used to denote seX. (Can't tell what language it originated from).
Lai-Lai: Means saying'no',showing 'disapproval' or 'disagreeing' to something. (It's an hausa word.)
Blon-Blon: Balloon (English)
Sh.it: Excreta(English)
Mess: Farting (Don't know)
Kelembe: Mucus. (Yoruba)

ChristyG: abi o,i suprised at dose claiming that it is ibo.akara means beanscake and it is yoruba not ibo

asudan:
Amebo is a yoruba word

makeitplain:

Okpelenge is Yoruba Spelled as[b] Opelenge[/b] A yoruba sarcastic saying goes as thus "Opelenge subu l'awo awo o fo, o subu l'odo odo ya gbaragada" Meaning a slim/slender or thin person fell on a ceramic plate it didn't break but fell on a mortal and mortal broke into pieces

Lai Lai is not Hausa, its Yoruba What it means originally is[b] NI AYE NI AYE[/b] shortened as l'aye l'aye and further as[b] lai lai. [/b]

NI in the context means "not" and AYE means "world" so when u say lai lai u are saying "not in this world" or simply "Never"
Mess origin is english word[b] "Mess"[/b] to mess something up so when u fart u mess the air up

Haydez01:
I'm a yoruba guy serving in Benin, most benin words are yoruba words that has different meaning and/or spelling variations. If you know history, oranmiyan found benin so stop claiming those words as benin words

itsIYKE: u for trace Russian come Yoruba nah,story teller,laye dis laye dat

rocgirl: Lol..

Amebo: A gossiper...(Delta)
Mumu: Usually used to decribe a foolish person.
Egusi: Melon seeds used to make egusi soap. (Igbo)
Eba: A meal made from cassava. (Igbo)
Fufu: A type of meal made from cassava. (Igbo)
Bambiala: Beggar (Hausa)
Opelenge: Used to describe a thin person. (Yoruba)
Nyansh: The *coughs*,and most recently,used to denote seX. (Can't tell what language it originated from).
Lai-Lai: Means saying'no',showing 'disapproval' or 'disagreeing' to something. (It's a yoruba word.)
Blon-Blon: Balloon (English)
Sh.it: Excreta(English)
Mess: Farting (English)
Kelembe: Mucus. (Yoruba)

baby124:
There is nothing like Egwusi, it is Egusi. Growing up, Igbo's used to call egusi, melon seeds/soup which is the English name because it is not their native soup. It is a Yoruba soup.

baby124:
There is nothing like Egwusi, it is Egusi. Growing up, Igbo's used to call egusi, melon seeds/soup which is the English name because it is not their native soup. It is a Yoruba soup.

makeitplain:

Dude, u ve got to learn.

itsIYKE: igbos Hve been cookin egwusi nd eatin soup before ur ancestor x was conceived,its even included in some ancient igbo cleansing ritual so stop talkin like a slowpoke