Ìlárá
name
/ì.lá.ɾá/
Ùláá (alternative), Ùlárá (alternative)
Definitions
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an ancient town is believed to be the ancestral origin of towns named Ilara
Similar wordsArá
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the name for several Yoruba towns. Unique suffixes are commonly attached to the town's name as a means of differentiating them (ex. Ìlárá-Mọ̀kín); Ilara-Mokin (an Ekiti Yoruba town in Ondo, Nigeria)
Similar words
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the name for several Yoruba towns. Unique suffixes are commonly attached to the town's name as a means of differentiating them (ex. Ìlárá-Mọ̀kín); Ìlárá-Rẹ́mọ (a Rẹ́mọ Yoruba town in Ogun, Nigeria)
Similar wordsÌlárá-Rẹ́mọ
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the name for several Yoruba towns. Unique suffixes are commonly attached to the town's name as a means of differentiating them (ex. Ìlárá-Mọ̀kín); Ìlárá-Yéwa (a Yéwa Yoruba town in Ogun, Nigeria)
Similar wordsÌlárá-Yéwa
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the name for several Yoruba towns. Unique suffixes are commonly attached to the town's name as a means of differentiating them (ex. Ìlárá-Mọ̀kín); Ìlárá-Ẹ̀pẹ́ (a Rẹ́mọ Yoruba town in Lagos, Nigeria)
Similar wordsÌlárá-Ẹ̀pẹ́
Etymology
From ìlú (“town”) + Ará (“Ara”), literally “town of Ará”, from ará (“family, community, relation”)
* Ará is regarded as the original town from which all modern Ìlárá towns emerged from, see Alárá, the title of each ruler of the modern Ìlárá towns, which still refers to Ará.
Component words
ìlútownAráAra
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Ikota (an Ekiti Yoruba town in Ifedore, Ondo, Nigeria), close to the town of Ìlárá-Mọ̀kín
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “Ilara”.
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