Òṣómàáló
name
/ò.ʃó.màá.ló/
Definitions
- an Ìjẹ̀ṣà person (in particular) a trader
Etymology
From òṣómàáló (“an Ìjẹ̀ṣà practice in which the loan giver sets up a tent in the vicinity of the debtor's abode”), itself from òṣó (“a squat”) + màá (“I will”) + ló (“squat”), literally “I will stay squatting [until I am paid]”.
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.
OsomaaloEnglish
Source: Wiktionary,
where this word is spelled “Oṣomaalo”.
Reference:
en-Oṣomaalo-yo-name-5PCp1UnX