Múyìwá
name
/mṹ.jì.wá/
Definitions
- a unisex given name meaning “brings honour”, usually a shortening of a longer name such as Olúwamúyìwá (“The Lord brings honour”), Oyèmúyìwá (“Chieftaincy brings honour”), Ògúnmúyìwá (“Ogun brings honour”), Adémúyìwá (“Royalty brings honour”), Ifámúyìwá (“Ifa brings honour”) etc.
- a surname
Etymology
From mú (“to bring”) + iyì or uyì (“honor, dignity”) + wá (“to come”), literally “To bring honour”
Component words
múto bringiyì or uyìhonor, dignity
wáto come
2 entries are spelled “wá”. The etymology calls it “to come”, but that isn't enough to tell them apart — we've linked to the first.
wá
come
wá
to look for
Related 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.
MuyiwaEnglish
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “Muyiwa”.
Reference:
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