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Ẹgba

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See also: ẹgba, Egba, and EGBA

Yoruba

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Etymology

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Perhaps from the phrase ẹ̀- +‎ gbá +‎ +‎ igbó, literally Ones who wander and hit the forest, compare with Ẹ̀gbádò

Pronunciation

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Noun

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Ẹ̀gbá

  1. the Egba people, a subgroup of the Yoruba people, historically consisting of three sections, the Gbágùrá or Ẹ̀gbá-Àgùrá, the Ẹ̀gbá Òkè-Ọ̀nà, and the Ẹ̀gbá Aké (also known as, and after 1840, the Òwú and Ìbarà have also been regarded as a subgroup within the Ẹ̀gbá capital of Abeokuta).
  2. The dialect of Yoruba spoken by the Ẹ̀gbá people








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