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                                             Meaning Of Extraordinary Names In Yoruba 1. Oba : means King. 2. Obatala or Oba Ala : means King of White. 3. Odua or Adua or Oduduwa or Odu To Da Iwa or Aduwa  : means Prayer. 4. Oonirisha or Ooni : means Emperor or the owner of deities. 5. Alaafin : means Emperor or the owner of Palaces. 6. Ootu Ife or Ile Ife : means source of expansion or land of expansion. 7. Ni Ife or Nyife : means from Ife.  8. Oyo or Oyonu : means Pardoner. 9.  Oyo Mesi : means Oyo Empire Legislatures. 10. Aare Ona KaKanfo : supreme military Commander.  11. Bashorun Ga or Gaa : means mighty Prime Minister or Empire Prime Minister.  12.  Bashorun Ga or Gaa Ina or Bashorun Gaana : means mighty fire or tough Empire Prime Minister. 13.  Yoruba : means source of  prosperity. 14.  Sanko or Sango or Shango : means strikes with thunder stones. 15.   Oya or Odo Oya : means tore or River Niger.  16.  Oyaji or Oyagi or Eyagi by Tapa (Nupe) : means Yoruba people, the Ancestors o

             What Is The Meaning Of Yoruba The Yoruba people were initially known as Ootu Ife or Nife people, though the word Yoba (Oyo + Oba = Yoba) was first recorded in reference to the Oyo Empire  and is the usual name for Oyo people as noted by Hugh Clapperton, Richard Lander and ethnography written in Ajami during the 19th century by Sultan Bello. The extension of the term (Yoruba) to all of dialects related to the language of the Oyo (in modern terminology North-West Yoruba) dates to the second half of the 19th century. It is due to the influence of a Yoruba Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther , the first Anglican bishop in Nigeria. Crowther himself was an indigene of Oyo town and compiled the first Yoruba dictionary as well as introducing a standard for Yoruba orthography. Though Yoruba is a divine name destined to be referred to Ootu Ife or Nife people across the globe. The Yoruba people (Yoruba: Ìran Yorùbá ) are an ethnic group that inhabits western Africa, mainly Nigeria , Benin ,