Ẹgba
Appearance
Yoruba
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perhaps from the phrase ẹ̀- + gbá + lé + igbó, literally “Ones who wander and hit the forest”, compare with Ẹ̀gbádò
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Ẹ̀gbá
- 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).
- The dialect of Yoruba spoken by the Ẹ̀gbá people