English Dictionary

Yoruba

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈjɒɹʊbə/

固有名詞

A sub-Saharan language. It belongs to the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family, and has nearly 40 million speakers in Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Sierra Leone, as well as communities in Brazil and Cuba.

日本語の意味

ヨルバ語：サハラ以南の地域、特にナイジェリア、ベナン、トーゴ、シエラレオネを中心に話される言語で、ナイジェリア・コンゴ語族の中のベヌエ・コンゴ派に属し、約4000万人の話者がいる。

My grandmother taught me traditional songs in Yoruba when I visited her village last summer.

昨夏彼女の村を訪れたとき、祖母はナイジェリア、ベナン、トーゴ、シエラレオネで約4,000万人に話され、ブラジルやキューバにもコミュニティのある、ベヌエ＝コンゴ語派に属する言語での伝統的な歌を教えてくれました。

意味（1）

A sub-Saharan language. It belongs to the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family, and has nearly 40 million speakers in Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Sierra Leone, as well as communities in Brazil and Cuba.

In the parlour, she could hear Aunty Biola attempting to teach her father Yoruba, collapsing into helpless giggles whenever he mispronounced his vowels, giving them the flat English sound instead of lifting them upwards with the slight outward puff of breath that was required.

意味（2）

An African traditional religion which spawned various offshoots in the Americas in the 15th to 19th centuries. These include santería and Lucumí. See Yoruba religion.

The Yoruba practitioner describes it as a condition where a man's semen will flow out of the vagina before fertilization can take place.