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Lero15:
Hehehe.
What u put up there is "Olorun olola" and "Olorun Ola" respectively

Lol. Ok. Tomorrow you will tell me the difference between Olorun and Oluwa, also, when and why they are used differently.

How was work today?

ProudOlodo:
Hahahahahaha. See the way you're fixing formation...decades of experience at work

Anyway, as you have revealed your plan, I must come up with a counter plan. Your invigilator shall be Viv, that lady from Bank XYZ #EvilLaugh

You are officially the ojuju Calabar of my life! Lol. You have started planning wickedness in high places... I will therefore not write the exam!

See you in five years time! lol

abimbawealth:
As you don know my name, Godwin... Clap for yaself

lol. I'm coming to your house soon. Prepare

ProudOlodo:
Hahahahaha. Study well o, you might get an impromptu exam

If you are going to be the invigilator, then I've passed already... Lol.

I'll like to sit next to Dahveydson and Karleone should be at my back. Please, tollyb should sit by my right while Abimba should take the front desk. Her name starts with the letter "A".

Smooth Jazz will sha miss the paper if it is impromptu! lol. She's been missing lectures lately but she can photocopy the handout sha. Ksstroud will be expecting an " A" in this course the way I see him, I wonder what my lovely daughter will get.

Abimbex my love, I'll put you through don't worry. You can copy from me in the hall sef if you like... Lol.

ProudOlodo:
Lol. Your nose here!

Lol. Peacock don't allow the lesson of today fly out of my head abeg, I'm still studying my notes before the next lecturer comes up...

abimbawealth:
My moniker don cause katakata ooo...

Bimbo! What is the matter?

ProudOlodo:
Fixed I think you still need some more

Hahahaha. I'm so going back for more! Your head there! Lol

blisscentre:
Don't mind Sexiest. Sexism makes them unreasonable.

Watch out! They will come after you now.

ProudOlodo:
Lol. Maybe you'll understand after that brain massage

Lol. I just returned from the first brain message. I really needed it *smiling

teechudleyy:
Lol. Ur too smart. I knew u WD catch DAT. Oriofe WD mean free head

Lol. Just one letter and the meaning is this bad! Lol. I shall not have a free head oooo... Oruko Jesu!

teechudleyy:
That's so wrong.
When a person says in yoruba "Ola Olorun in mo n je o."
Or "Ola Iya to bi wa" -
They never mean wealth in these cases

Hahahaha. please, I need a brain massage! This is more than I can handle. Lol

ProudOlodo:
Lol. That translation is not right. You may not understand

Lol. Not I may not understand but I do not understand.

teechudleyy:
I think ola in some contexts and ore ofe could be synonyms.

Mmmh... this is deep and wide! BTW, thanks for the correct spelling of that Yoruba grace word.

teechudleyy:
Yeah... Like Olaoluwa to mean means Gods grace. In the process of explaining... One might further confuse ppl.

No o, that's not it. It is Oriofe

ProudOlodo:
Exactly. In names like 'olaoluwa', to translate it as 'wealth' defeats the meaning. I think while 'wealth' is often the most fitting translation, most names are intended to combine it with other meanings like 'honour', 'virtue', etc. Like you said, translation hardly captures it all
cc: amicable09

Olaoluwa will simply mean wealthy God or God of wealth na. There is nothing lost in the translation.

ProudOlodo:
Ola doesn't mean 'wealth' all the time

Really!? What other meaning has Ola in English?

teechudleyy:
Maybe we should go to d culture segment of Nairaland. Ders no letter c in the yoruba alphabet.

This is serious! lol
Bye joblanders, I'm off to my Yoruba lectures for the day.

Ede Yoruba 101! No letter c in the Yoruba alphabet... mmmh.

whizqueen:
Sorry to intrude

I almost choked laughing reading this

Lol. Whiz don't laugh at me joor!

Good morning my learned friends! There is a big case here o, come and make money. Sue those foreign bosses for damages... I'm sure there are other members of staff who will be needing your services in that company.

Make money out of this, and thank me later.

cc. Tolusan
adeaks

karleone:
Seems we're in for a naming ceremony today. Keep the names coming.
Hope they have Chisomola?

Lol. They can't have "Chi" in their names but they have Sola, I think.

teechudleyy:
Its not pet name o. Just short forms of D name. Like Chukwuebuka is Ebuka

The Bimbos are definitely Abimbola. But the Bolas could have been Adebola, etc

Oh! Oh! Oh!
Lol @ not pet name o.

teechudleyy:
It can also be Bimbo.

Oh! Mehn! this is an exposé, I swear. You mean all the people I've called Bimbo are Abimbolas? lol.
I am learning about pet names today.*smiles

LastMumu:
Do you guys know a popular soft drink brand got its name and success from the Yoruba name Ola?

History has it that in 1759, when the Brits landed on the shore of Lagos, in their bid to colonize the place now called Nigeria, one of major Lords (Lord Snowbelly) that travelled with them fell in love with the daughter of an Ifa priest called Adenike. Just before Snowbelly was about to go back to England, Adenike rushed into her father's shrine and brought out a black stuff which she claimed to a sweetener brought by Ifa when he landed on earth. She said the name of the flavor is called Koka kola (Get bent and get wealth), that flavour has been the secret flavour behind the success of the Coca-Cola soft drink.

Hahahaha. Officially, you are the funniest guy on NL! Lol

What is this!? Some myth or what? Lol. Where did you get this history from? It's too funny to be true.

teechudleyy:
No can. It is Bola is two words. In the end... Ola is d boss.

In Yoruba land. Naming is a beautiful thing. . . your name however simple it is has something to do with your roots. Some families bear Ola. Some bear Akin something. Just as the royals bear AdeSomething Its a family thing. In some homes everyone is Ola something... Cousins and all. Its fun and corny sometimes tho.

Wow! That's serious.
So this Ola name has its roots traceable to family something!? I want to know if there is a name like "My wealth has finished" "I was born and wealth disappeared" " Born without wealth"... Those kind of meanings, any name like that?

BTW I have noticed Yoruba naming ceremony is always a big affair and that's cool sha.

joseph1832:
You see what I mean about stringing me on. LOL. When a challenge is issued to you, you shy away from it, even though you're the one who successfully planted the seed that lead to the issuance of that challenge.

I'm starting to believe you're a tease. You remind me of a certain moniker here, punkyveer.

Good morning.

Lol. I sincerely do not want to comment on this thread again, been trying to bring every conversation to a close cos I've commented more than the OP of this thread.

This is by no means a challenge I'm shying away from... lol. Good morning.

kaboninc:
As there are irresponsible men, so also are there irresponsible women.

But its so funny when women spend their entire time blaming the men for their own irresponsible acts.

We share in the blame too.

teechudleyy:
Lol. The translation isn't difficult. Its just DAT translation can't capture some things in a word.

I just learnt its actually Abimibaola while I was translating Abimibiola... Abimibaola - Meaning I was born and I met wealth. Whatever sha. There's birth and there's wealth. Cool!

Lol. Ehen!? This must be some wealth series o, So many names with Ola. When next I meet a person bearing ...Ola, or Ola..., I'll be sure to ask for the name in full.

Whenever I hear Ola, what comes to my mind is Olamide only. Abimbola for me is Bola in short form but now I see it can be Ola too.

I think I get it now, I just went back to my lesson note from last night and LastMumu said Abimbola means Born WITH wealth. Olamide, my wealth has come/arrived. Tee, just said Abisola is born into wealth.

I don't know whether to call the conjunctions abi preposition the object of confusion but it's clear now.

kaboninc:
How?

You were quick to point out how irresponsible men are at the same time telling us not to take a woman as an object.

So am saying maybe the women want to be seen as an object....

Lol. So you agree men are becoming irresponsible, what do we do then so as to go back to the time of old, when men were men.

teechudleyy:
No o.

Born into wealth actually is Abisola.
Abimbola literally is they born me born wealth. My self and wealth... Born together.

Why is this particular name's translation difficult?

qhutetomsel:
'Abimbola' means 'born into wealth' while 'olamide' means 'my wealth has come'.
Two different meanings entirely.

Yoruba is easy to learn if you are patient enough!

Teechudleyy said Abimbola is not born into wealth, that's Abisola.
Yoruba romance with wealth sha! lol. Even Hausas have not taken the matter like this into names. Lol