Ẹgba
See also: ẹgba
Yoruba
Etymology
From the phrase ẹ̀ gbá lé igbó (“Ones who wander and hit the forest”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̀.ɡ͡bá/
Noun
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