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| What Is English Name For "obokun" Fish by AkedeOba(op): 9:10pm On Jun 03, 2008 |
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| Re: What Is English Name For "obokun" Fish by Riskie(f): 1:06am On Jun 04, 2008 |
Obokun is cat fish in English. |
| Re: What Is English Name For "obokun" Fish by mafolayomi(f): 4:37pm On Jun 17, 2008 |
Riskie:Cat fish is Ojiji in Yoruba |
| Re: What Is English Name For "obokun" Fish by Riskie(f): 6:51pm On Jun 17, 2008 |
mafolayomi:Well, I'm not Yoruba so I might be wrong. But I heard my mom referring to catfish as obokun. And if I'm not mistaken, ojiji in Yoruba is shadow  |
| Re: What Is English Name For "obokun" Fish by Seun(mod): 8:33am On Jul 31, 2011 |
'Obokun' is Tilapia. |
| Re: What Is English Name For "obokun" Fish by solsy(f): 5:05pm On Jul 21, 2012 |
Obokun is a type of cat fish. The dark catfish we see around is "eja aro" in yoruba 1 Like 1 Share |
| Re: What Is English Name For "obokun" Fish by tpia5: 2:59am On Jul 23, 2012 |
i think obokun is catfish. btw whatever happened to that site? the op should have kept it updated. |
| Re: What Is English Name For "obokun" Fish by JuanDeDios: 10:12am On Dec 20, 2017 |
Seun:That's right. |
| Re: What Is English Name For "obokun" Fish by janefarms2015: 11:09am On Dec 20, 2017 |
JuanDeDios:You are all wrong. Obokun is called silver catfish and tilapia is called 'epiya' in yoruba |
| Re: What Is English Name For "obokun" Fish by nobaga: 3:46pm On Dec 20, 2017 |
You are probably right. Obukun is cat fish but ojiji is electric fish, I think. janefarms2015: |
| Re: What Is English Name For "obokun" Fish by OmoIKD: 2:25pm On Feb 07, 2018 |
Obokun fish in english is called Pangasius. |
| Re: What Is English Name For "obokun" Fish by bd4u(f): 2:01pm On Jun 24, 2022 |
My question is; is there different between eja aro and obokun? |
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