Àjàṣẹ́
name
/à.d͡ʒà.ʃɛ́/
Definitions
- a name for several towns in Yorubaland. The towns are often suffixed by a unique identifying term as a way of differentiating them.; Porto-Novo (a city in Benin); Àjàṣẹ́ people, a subgroup of the Yoruba people who live in the town of Porto-Novo and who speak the Àjàṣẹ́ dialect of Yoruba
- a name for several towns in Yorubaland. The towns are often suffixed by a unique identifying term as a way of differentiating them.; Porto-Novo (a city in Benin); The dialect of the Yoruba language spoken in the town of Àjàṣẹ́ (Porto-Novo).
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a name for several towns in Yorubaland. The towns are often suffixed by a unique identifying term as a way of differentiating them.; Ajasse Ipo (a city in Nigeria)
Similar wordsÀjàṣẹ́-ìpoÀjàṣẹ́-Ìgbómìnà
Etymology
From à- (“nominalizing prefix”) + jà (“to fight”) + ṣẹ́ (“to be victorious”).
Component words
Words in other languages from this one
These are words in other languages that came from this Yorùbá word, mostly through trade, the Atlantic slave trade, and contact with neighbouring languages.
They are not translations. A word here means what it means in its own language, which may have drifted a long way from the Yorùbá it started as.
Àjàṣẹ́Gun
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “Ajaṣẹ”.
Reference:
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