ìyáláṣẹ
noun
/ì.já.lá.ʃɛ̄/
Definitions
- Candomblé high priestess, the highest priestess of a given worship house.
Etymology
From ìyá (“mother”) + oní (“one who has”) + àṣẹ (“power”), literally “Mother of the power”.
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.
ialaxéPortuguese
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “iyalaṣẹ”.
Reference:
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