Bestglo: peace = alafia

don't know whether this is yoruba or hausa though

tpia@:
Ire means blessing or honour.

I'm not sure there's any word meaning peace, in yoruba.

tpia@:
Actually, peace in yoruba is toro, or tooro

Different from toro which means to borrow or beg.

And toro which means penny

Not sure why it didnt come to mind before, maybe the word is no longer used as much.

tpia@:
^ actually, it seems the other two posters were right.

alaafia is considered the word for peace in yoruba, although i previously thought alaafia simply meant health or wellbeing.


even if you google it, alaafia is what comes up.

Ire means honor, blessing, success or prosperity (eg ireakari or orire).

and yes, ibukun also means blessing.

i also dont know if ire is used for peace in different parts of yorubaland.

tpia@:
That being the case, then alaafia should primarily mean health, or well being.

Maybe in some areas, its meaning is peace.

Negro_Ntns:

toro/tooro - sustain/continuum

Negro_Ntns:

lol! thank you but google cannot teach me my tongue. yoruba has no function for health. we talk about balance....wellbeing!

alafia - wellbeing
ayesi - honor
ibukun - blessing
ere - success
ola - prosperity

ire - peace

Negro_Ntns:

in western culture they focus on health and less on wellbeing.

in yoruba customs we strive for balance....the wellbeing of the individual.

tpia@:


toro means calm.


i double checked and it seems toro isnt generally substituted for peace because someone/somewhere can be calm without being peaceful.

alaafia, on the other hand, is more encompassing and has a wider, more thorough definition as peace.

this is what i learnt outside google.

on google, i found samuel johnson's definition which describes tooro as calm. However, this was when i did a check on tooro after i remembered the word.

tpia@:


i checked google to get more info, not that i found much.

one blog claimed farabale is peace [not exactly correct], since alaafia is a loan word from hausa or arabic.

Using European language to equate meaning to Yoruba words will result in precisely the outcome you stated in the bold.

Yoruba_Omoge: Negro

Ire means blessing.

Alafia - wellbeing or peace (of mind/body)

ex: Ire oluwa- blessing of God

Negro_Ntns:

is there a "blessing of devil"? perhaps there are people that pray for that, who knows....

what exactly is ire oluwa? that sound like a scripted prayer from one of these scam evangelists deceiving gullible people and sucking their pockets dry.

ire oluwa is a very poor example.

anyway,
blessing - ibukun
wellbeing - alafia

peace - ire

tpia@:
^you could be right, its not certain the word is a loan one although it seems that way.

not sure, actually.

pazienza: Lol! All these arguement just because of peace. Maybe different yoruba tribes have different words for it,that could explain why you guys are findind it kinda hard to reach a consensus here.


In igbo,like nwa ide had written, peace is UDO. That's how names like UDOka- peace is greater, akuUDO- peaceful wealth came about.

Negro_Ntns:

lol.....you brought a whole book to prove it.

who is the author of this book and what page was that on?

Yoruba_Omoge:

It's by a Yoruba (Kayode J. Fakinlede) author. The dictionary is used in most American universities.