lordlugards:
you tried, add this
Aja-dog
Malu-cow
Agutan-Ram
Elede-pig

Benin Elede( pig)

What about the Yoruba names for different species of fishes? I know eel is called Eja Osan. But what is the Yoruba name for: Catfish Titus Mockerel And what is the English name for: Shawa Panla

Amotolongbo:
E gbiyanju gidi gan ni.

Eledumare o tun bo ma fun yin ni opolo si

Amin asee edumare. Esee pupo.

computergenius:
What about the Yoruba names for different species of fishes?
I know eel is called Eja Osan.
But what is the Yoruba name for:
Catfish
Titus
Mockerel
And what is the English name for:
Shawa
Panla

Lolz. Now I feel like eating panla gbigbe.

Jokes aside except shawa, catfish I don’t really know a name for the rest.
Shawa= sardine
Catfish= eja aro
Update: The fish inside Titus is called a mackerel in English but I think it’s Alaran in Yoruba

This is a mackerel fish

computergenius:
What about the Yoruba names for different species of fishes?
I know eel is called Eja Osan.
But what is the Yoruba name for:
Catfish
Titus
Mockerel
And what is the English name for:
Shawa
Panla

Catfish= aroo/arogidigba
Titus= sawa
Mackerel= osan

agbakuonida:
Ejo sir kini anpe Lili ati wipe bawo ni ose ri gan

it's called Porcupine. shey u get?

Ilaje44:

Akurakuda is the corruption of the English crocodile. The word for crocodile in Yorùbá is Ọ̀nì.

This is true. I wanted to put it this way but it kinda slipped my mind. Thanks

There is no tiger in africa, yoruba cant have a name for an animal that was never seen .
Ekun is Leopard
Amotekun is Cheetah
Ancient yoruba language as far back as the era of Ajayi crowther who translated the bible into yoruba language referred to ekun as leopard.
Isaiah 11:6 u can check both English and yoruba language for confirmation

Ekun = Leopard
Amotekun = Cheetah

shogz89:
. Toad in yoruba Opolo, frog � is konko.

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owomida1:
Camel is Rakunmi

You're right. But op, I didn't see Adan - Bat

KHbaby:


You're right. But op, I didn't see Adan - Bat

Sorry ma. I forgot to put many animals name there due to the difficulty of finding their Yoruba names.
But Adan (bat) is obviously one I should have added given that it’s well known. I don’t know how I could have forgotten it.

sammyfrosh:

That’s ofafa (rock hyrax or hyrax) which is different from owawa.

Ofafa barks like a dog and can climb trees with adhesive pad soles even without claws and it’s closely related to the elephant.

Stop convincing yourself, check for hyrax sound it not the like barking it's more like birds. That thing you call ofafa might be the same another tribe call Ọwáwa, and it sound is like a dog. Please watch natgeo wild and get cheetah sound to admit you got that wrong.

Bro, i must commend ur effort but a little point of correction abt amotekun. amotekun isnt leopard but cheetah while leopard is ekun. we dont have tiger in africa and its not native to africa

k2money:

Stop convincing yourself, check for hyrax sound it not the like barking it's more like birds. That thing you call ofafa might be the same another tribe call Ọwáwa, and it sound is like a dog. Please watch natgeo wild and get cheetah sound to admit you got that wrong.

Trust me. I know what am saying and have seen an hyrax and eaten it before when I went to my grandmas village for holidays. It looks like a rodent with no claws on its feet’s, white patches of hair on it back with black or olive brown fur and can climb trees. There’s a tree hyrax and a rock hyrax. The one am calling ofafa is a western tree hyrax and they do make noises like different animals such as pigs as well as that of humans baby too whenever they descend from trees. so your the one who needs to gets your fact right cause have seen and heard what it looks or sound like.
Below is the animal am talking about.

eby001:

'Eja aroo' or arogidigba

I love the Aroidigba I hope its generally acceptable coz am gonna say it dz evening

i thought ishawuru is jelly fish

sammyfrosh:

I think it’s pronounced oni.

I don’t really know about Akurakuda but since it sounds like how one pronounced a Crocodile I always have the impression of it being a Crocodile.

Also a Whale is Erinmilokun.

erinmilokun is hipopo

NigeriaBam:
I need Yoruba name for "Toad"

And English name for "Opolo"

Toad is kankan while opolo is Frog not the way OP arranged it.

sammyfrosh:

Trust me. I know what am saying and have seen an hyrax and eaten it before when I went to my grandmas village for holidays. It looks like a rodent with no claws on its feet’s, white patches of hair on it back with black or olive brown fur and can climb trees. There’s a tree hyrax and a rock hyrax. The one am calling ofafa is a western tree hyrax and they do make noises like different animals such as pigs as well as that of humans baby too whenever they descend from trees. so your the one who needs to gets your fact right cause have seen and heard what it looks or sound like.
Below is the animal am talking about.

The pictures look like Ọwáwa. I can't really remember the pictures because it's more than 25 years that I saw Ọwáwa last. But that hydrax sound like a pigs truly but Ọwáwa makes sound that pronounce like waowaowaowao. Like a dog barking. Watch natgeo wild cheetahs sound like a cat mew, mew, check that YouTube and stop calling cheetah Ọwáwa.
Ọwáwa do bark while cheetah mew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6Qh3VTmtxU

gurunlocker:
I was searching for Amotekun

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gregyboy:


How would they know when most Yoruba's are still iliterate and all they do is go to the nearest coco farms till they die ,yorubas who cant even speak pidgin or English ,its just a little gap that makes yoruba and hausa different in Nigeria both are ridiculed with poverty states



Modify...

Lol,who cares if Yoruba dont know we exist

Everyone reads our history outside the shores of nigeria
We are visibly recognized internationally for our sophisticated history and artworks

Nigeria practise the left over of our history

A country took upon the name of the great empire

Our food egusi and pounded yam is a general delicacy in nigeria

The nigeria attire is not complete until you wear the Benin red coral beads

Lets not go deep about how our culture as eaten deep in Yoruba history

If Nigeria was to divide today we will survive on our own and also decide to ecompass Yoruba's amongst us since they had always been under the Benin rule


That statement you made up there simply arosed from bigoted pride..and nothing truthful about it

If you can tell me what the yorubas had used to surpass edo in the past and present
Then i will take you serious untill then
All you said was formed from lies

You are just deluded.

Even your 'God-like' Oba is a Yoruba man.

To start to state Yoruba superiority over Bini whether now or in the past will be an overkill and amount to waste of time...

Didn't the Brits rout the whole Benin city in just a few hours and thereafter banish your Oba to Calabar

You should even be grateful that they restored your monarchy for you otherwise...

ednut1:
how can you have a name for.something you dont know existed na

Why do you think they didn't know it existed

Do you think they did not have their own form of education

NigeriaBam:
I need Yoruba name for "Toad"
And English name for "Opolo"

toad is konko while opolo is frog

lordlugards:
you tried, add this Aja-dog Malu-cow Agutan-Ram Elede-pig

Aguntan is sheep while Ram is agbo

What of amotekun

Donaldoni:


You are just deluded.

Even your 'God-like' Oba is a Yoruba man.

Since when is the Oba of Benin a Yoruba man ?
Share your proof.
To the best of my knowledge, the Oba of Benin is the first son of the previous Oba of Benin who was also the first son of the previous Oba of Benin who was also the first son of the previous Oba of Benin, and so on ...

We don't have tigers in Africa and yorubas does not have a name for it

Donaldoni:



To start to state Yoruba superiority over Bini whether now or in the past will be an overkill and amount to waste of time...

Yet the outside world doesn't see this superiority which you are talking about. It exists only in the mind of Yoruba supremacists.
Be it the art, the military or the architecture, the Benin empire has always been superior to the Yoruba.
Most of you Yoruba actually descend from freed slaves dumped on our shores. You are slaves trying to rewrite history in order to make yourselves masters in a past that never existed.

Donaldoni:



Didn't the Brits rout the whole Benin city in just a few hours and thereafter banish your Oba to Calabar

First of all, the last war between Benin empire and Britain started in 1895 and ended in around 1900.
The British captured the capital of the empire (the capital is Benin city) in 1897 and the emperor surrendered in 1897 while some of his generals fought on untill around 1900.

And if I recollect, the Yoruba gave up to the British without a fight ! You welcomed the invading British as liberators and you just bowed down to them without a fight. While real strong African kingdoms fought and made the British pay a price for the invasion. The Yoruba just gave up like cowards. While real African kingdoms were being burnt down by the British, the same British were building houses for their Yoruba collaborators/puppets ( the ooni of ife and the alafin of Oyo).

The thing which you Yoruba keep overlooking is that you were in a better position after the invasion of the British, whereas the actual west African powerhouses were degraded by the British and their kings sent into exile or killed. That is what happened to: Benin Empire, Kano Emirate, Sokoto Kalifate, Borno emirate...

thanks for this

Think about this: after the British invasion, we were all miserable. The real African powerhouses had been degraded, that is why they were in a comatose status. But the Yoruba were also miserable, and that is funny because the status of the Yoruba was made better after the British invasion than before. So how bad was the Yoruba status before the invasion ? It seems to me that the Yoruba owe everything to the British. Nowonder they still call the British "master".

masseratti:
We don't have tigers in Africa and yorubas does not have a name for it

in as much as I agree that tiger is not native to Africa. I don't think its logical to say yorubas don't have name for it.

Does that then mean that animals native to Africa alone has no business having English name I.e Erinmi(hippopotamus) should not be called hippo because its not native to UK or Europe or The West.

of course its easy to argue that the early civilization of the West and the Colonization of Africa enabled access, interaction and knowledge of this animals. hence their English names.

my question now is even if tiger is not native to Africa, who says our Forefathers didnot travel far and wide to other continents - either for religious, business or adventure. Who say some did not settle in these areas and later return back home.

Again, many people limit yoruba to only a group of People in SouthWest Nigeria, Africa, where in fact, we have native yorubas in Countries like Brazil, Cuba, Peru and the rest.

Now, Jaguar is not in Africa, but native to South America with quite significant population of Yoruba. Do the logic!

My grandfather told me his grandfather was among those that travelled on foot to far Asia, especially Saudi from Nigeria. Not all return. Is it possible for them not only to have heard of the Tiger animal, but seen it several times. Mind you they traveled on foot. chances are that they will manoeuvre through the forest... where else would they encounter the Tiger Animal?

No matter how small their population outside Africa was then, giving animal they encountered a name and making it popular back home wouldn't be a big deal.

I also agree with someone earlier that some animals name were given to people with rugged and fearless attributes like ekun, with even a proverb "taa je gbe'na w'oju ekan? Nibody dares. Ogidan and the likes.

So the fact that some animals are not native to Africa or Yorubaland doesnt mean they don't have yoruba names.

I agree that:
Tiger = Ekun
Leopard = Amot'ekun. I.e like the tiger or can do as a Tiger or behaves like Tiger. (Much kudos to that brain that gives the Security network that name)

Jaguar = Ogidan.

its wrong to say Amotekun = Cheetah....

The elders can't be wrong altogether. especially those that came up with the Amotekun name. And place don't tell me the picture of the animal of the security outfit emblem is Cheetah.