Yoruba word senses marked with topical category "Poetry"
Parent categories: Art, Literature, Culture, Entertainment, Writing, Society, Human behaviour, Language, Human, Communication
Total 21 word senses
- alamọ (Noun) A form of Èkìtì Yoruba oral poetry
- alọ (Noun) folktale, fable
- aro (Noun) dirge, lamentation; usually during a funeral
- ewi (Noun) poetry, poem
- ijala (Noun) A traditional form of oral Yoruba poetry and chants performed by hunters, often praising the orisha Ogun
- iremọje (Noun) A form of Yoruba traditional oral poetry and rites performed at the night of the funeral of a great hunter by worshippers of the orisha Ògún.
- isaaro (Noun) A form of Yoruba oral poetry and ceremony performed at Ọ̀yọ́ Yoruba funerals of elderly women. It is usually lead by the head, or alágbaa, of a family worshipping the ọ̀jẹ̀ class of egúngún.
- iwi (Noun) A form of Yoruba oral poetry, consisting of chanting and invocation performed by worshippers of the Egúngún
- iyẹrẹ Ifa (Noun) A form of Yoruba oral poetry and chanting performed for the worship and praise of Ifá.
- ogbere (Noun) A form of traditional Yoruba oral poetry among the Ọ̀yọ́ performed during funeral and burial rites.
- olele (Noun) A form of oral Yoruba poetry among the Ìjẹ̀ṣà people
- oolẹ (Noun) a specific type of oríkì poetry consisting of long epithets praising one's lineage and ancestry
- oriki (Noun) A form of Yoruba oral praise poetry, (ewì), it is characterized by long epithets praising and acknowledging the traits, accomplishments, and or attributes a specific person, family or lineage, town, animal, òrìṣà, subethnic group etc.
- rara (Noun) A type of traditional Yoruba oral poetry and chants, or ewì
- ujaamẹṣẹ (Noun) A form of Yoruba oral poetry and chanting performed by the Ekiti people of the Ido-Osi local government in honor of the deity Ọlụ́a.
- yungba (Noun) A type of traditional Yoruba oral poetry among the Ọ̀yọ́ Yoruba performed by high ranking] aristocrat women (wives of chiefs and the king), during festivals to honor the king, the Aláàfin.
- Ṣango-pipe (Noun) a form of oral poetry consisting of chanting and invocation (pípè) in worship of the orisha Ṣàngó
- ẹburumbu (Noun) a traditional Yoruba artistic method used in oral poetry competitions in which poets approach a type of poem (oríkì, ẹ̀sà, ìjálá) from an uncommon angle (perhaps idiomatic or proverbial) and challenges a fellow poet to continue the poem from that unique angle in an attempt to confuse them.
- ẹka (Noun) recitation, (in particular) reciting a dirge
- ẹkun-iyawo (Noun) A form of traditional Yoruba oral poetry characterized by the singing of a bride during marital rites
- ẹsa (Noun) A genre of oríkì poetry performed by worshippers of the Egúngún consisting of chanting and invocation of the spirit of the Egúngún.
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