Ẹgba

See also: ẹgba, Egba, and EGBA

Yoruba

Etymology

Perhaps from the phrase ẹ̀- +‎ gbá +‎ lé +‎ igbó, literally “Ones who wander and hit the forest”, compare with Ẹ̀gbádò

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̀.ɡ͡bá/

Noun

Ẹ̀gbá

1. 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).
2. The dialect of Yoruba spoken by the Ẹ̀gbá people