Yoruba Elements

a 7 Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "we".

adé Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "crown".

àlà Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "white cloth".

ará Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "family, relative".

ayé Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "life, world".

ayọ̀ Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "joy".

bá Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "meet, find".

baba 2 Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "father".

bẹ̀ Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "beg, pray".

bí Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "to give birth, to beget".

bọ̀ Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "return".

bùkún Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "add, increase".

bùn Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "give".

dé 2 Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "arrive, come".

dè Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "without, in the absence of".

di Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "become, change into".

dì 3 Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "tie, bind, bundle".

ẹkún Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "weeping, tears".

ẹni Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "person".

eyí Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "this".

fi Yoruba
Yoruba verb prefix meaning "use, do".

fún Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "give, scatter, squeeze".

gbé Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "carry, lift".

gùn Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "ascend, climb".

ìfà Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "good luck".

ìfẹ́ Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "love".

ìkẹ́ Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "fondness, care".

ilé Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "home".

ìtàn Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "history, story".

ìtọwo Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "taste".

iwájú Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "front, forward, ahead".

ìyá Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "mother".

jí 2 Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "awake".

jì 3 Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "forgive".

kán Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "drop".

kẹ́ Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "cherish, care".

kẹ́hìn Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "final, last".

kó Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "gather".

kún Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "to fill, to be full, replenish".

lé Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "exceed, increase".

mi 8 Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "me, my".

mo Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "I" (first-person pronoun).

ní Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "obtain, get, have, possess" (lí before vowel).

ńlá Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "great, large".

ọba Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "king".

ọdún Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "festival".

ọ̀kan Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "one".

òkè 2 Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "hill, mountain".

òkun Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "sea, ocean".

ọlá Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "honour, respect".

ọlà Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "wealth".

olú Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "chief, ruler", also short for olúwa.

olúwa Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "lord, God".

ọmọ Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "child".

ọní Yoruba
Yoruba prefix meaning "owner" (ọlí before vowel), from the nominative prefix ọ and ní.

ọpẹ́ Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "gratitude, thanks".

òrìṣà Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "deity, spirit".

ọ̀run Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "heaven, sky".

ọ̀sẹ̀ Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "week".

oyè Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "honour, chieftaincy".

oyin Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "honey".

rè Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "go".

sá Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "dry".

ṣe Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "do, make".

ṣẹ́gun Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "conquer".

ṣeun Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "thank".

simi Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "rest".

ti Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "belonging to".

títí Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "forever, long time".

to 4 Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "sufficient".

tún Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "again".

wá 1 Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "come".

wá 2 Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "seek, search".

yẹ Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "suitable, worthy".

yẹ́ Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "praise, favour".

yíká Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "surround".

yìn 2 Yoruba
Yoruba word meaning "praise".