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Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by 123yes(m): 4:14am On Oct 18, 2025

Abachala nmeku

Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by sisisioge: 4:31am On Oct 18, 2025

Tanwinji....I think grin

Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by GorillaApp(m): 4:40am On Oct 18, 2025

njokuuche77:
African velvet tamarind fruit
Ncheku
Liki liki

thank you for the english name

Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by clefstone(m): 4:42am On Oct 18, 2025

brain54:
Grew up calling it isegun...

Don't know what language that is!

We called it Ishegun in Warri

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Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by GaskiyaTV: 5:08am On Oct 18, 2025

Tsamiyar Biri - Hausa - Which translares to Monkey's Tamarind.

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Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by Thomasankara(m): 5:11am On Oct 18, 2025

[/color]Baba dudu[color=#770077]

Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by Okhuadams(m): 5:25am On Oct 18, 2025

Morbeta11:
What's this called in your native language?🤔

lickie lickie

Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by ekimogun777: 5:32am On Oct 18, 2025

Morbeta11:
What's this called in your native language?🤔

It's called "layunmeme"in Ondo dialect.(Ondo town)

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Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by Procashtips(m): 5:34am On Oct 18, 2025

thesicilian:
Both Bini and Benin are correct names for the language. The Oba himself has confirmed that on several occasions.

Oba confirmed what, when and where?

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Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by Procashtips(m): 5:34am On Oct 18, 2025

LordReed:
The language is Bini.

In which ethnic group?

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Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by Giftedhand47(m): 5:34am On Oct 18, 2025

Jennyclay:
I don’t know

You can never know
Na only to shade men you know

Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by Procashtips(m): 5:35am On Oct 18, 2025

Iceberg3:
Oga in Benin city,we always call it amunge o... don't know if it gat a native name....like edinebo for so or pineapple

In Benin city, but is Benin city a language?

Ever heard of Itu?

Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by Ten06(m): 5:38am On Oct 18, 2025

Velvet Tamarind

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Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by Kinkinatus(m): 6:00am On Oct 18, 2025

Velvet Tamarind

Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by tollyboy5(m): 6:10am On Oct 18, 2025

Pootle:
licky licky

that how we know it back then in AJ

God bless you brodaly

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Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by thesicilian: 6:15am On Oct 18, 2025

Procashtips:
Oba confirmed what, when and where?

Google search is there at your finger tips

Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by Okeyc230: 6:17am On Oct 18, 2025

Chichi baa

Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by jideisaacs: 6:39am On Oct 18, 2025

Aawin in Yoruba

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Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by Kelvin3476: 6:40am On Oct 18, 2025

Privatepart00:

Is called ichekwu by Igbos
There's many trees of it here
Is long I tasted it since the roof of my throat pains me after licking it and drinking water

Security use because of this do me something with my friends back then in primary school

This what many mothers in Igboland buy for their kids when they go to market

But it can dirty the house without remedy

some calls it Nchichi or Obah too

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Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by Nwasaka: 6:50am On Oct 18, 2025

Chichiba

Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by igwedubai2(m): 6:53am On Oct 18, 2025

Esan language is call Oyanmen

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Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by AlphaTaikun: 7:07am On Oct 18, 2025

Morbeta11:
What's this called in your native language?🤔

Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by AlphaTaikun: 7:09am On Oct 18, 2025

GaskiyaTV:
Tsamiyar Biri - Hausa - Which translares to Monkey's Tamarind.

Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by AlphaTaikun: 7:10am On Oct 18, 2025

clefstone:
We called it Ishegun in Warri

Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by iwadobo: 7:10am On Oct 18, 2025

Ohionmhen in Edo language the language of the gods. The additional words is just to meet Sheuns requiment no be say I mean am ooo

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Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by iwadobo: 7:12am On Oct 18, 2025

igwedubai2:
Esan language is call Oyanmen

It is Ohianmhen. Not oyanmhen

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Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by iwadobo: 7:14am On Oct 18, 2025

DIVINEEVIDENCE:
1. Icheku
2. Chichiba
3. Abancheleke

All Igbo dialectical nuances.

Shows Igbo is a mixture of many tribes just like yoruba

Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by lymelyte(m): 7:17am On Oct 18, 2025

Amunge

Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by iwadobo: 7:17am On Oct 18, 2025

sexyyoyo:
You must be high on osogbo weed. Imumu ko, amunukun ni. Olodo oshi.
Ayin is the correct name for it in yoruba

Yoruba is a multiethnic race . So, both of you are correct , it depends on where you come from in Yoruba . Oyo were the only Yoruba before others were added for political identity

Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by AlphaTaikun: 7:19am On Oct 18, 2025*

wallrichy:
Everyone born and bred in the South West especially Lagos State knows it as Awin which Of course is a Yoruba name.......so sweet die....... 😂

"Awin," that's interesting. I've seen up to 5 different Yoruba names today for this same Tamarind fruit. It further shows the regional variations in Yorubaland for naming items used in the Yoruba lexicon. Someone said it's called "Ayin" in the Ijesha dialect of the Yoruba language and someone from Ondo City in Ondo State ALSO clearly gave a different name entirely.

It's just like the original Yoruba steamed beans batter delicacy called Moyin Moyin (shortened to Moin Moin without the letter Y) in Yoruba language which has an alternate Yoruba name called Olele which still refers to the same thing based on regional differences in dialects and food among the Yorubas.

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Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by AlphaTaikun: 7:26am On Oct 18, 2025

ekimogun777:
It's called "layunmeme"in Ondo dialect.(Ondo town)

That's fascinating... "Layunmeme."

What does it literally mean in the Ondo dialect of the Yoruba language?

Re: What's This Called In Your Native Language? by LordReed(m): 7:51am On Oct 18, 2025

Procashtips:
In which ethnic group?

Edo

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