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"english": "national oriki",
"word": "oríkì orílẹ-èdè"
},
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"english": "personal oriki names",
"word": "oríkì ọlọ́danni"
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"english": "referential definition",
"word": "oríkì àfìtọ́kamọ̀"
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"word": "oríkì ìdílé"
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},
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},
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"english": "Oriki is the most popular of the Yoruba oral poetic genres",
"text": "Oríkì ní ó gbajúmọ̀ jù nínú gbogbo ohùn-ẹnu Yorùbá",
"type": "example"
}
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"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."
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"text": "It is often given by one's grandmother or older relative, similar to a cognomen. These often are informal and not part of the official name of a person."
},
{
"text": "a kì í pe orúkọ ẹni k'á báni wí; a kì í porúkọ odò k'ódò gbéni lọ; bẹ́ẹ̀ náà ni a kì í sọ oríkì ọmọ kínúu rẹ̀ má yọ̀ síni\nWe do not call someone's name and begin to reprimand him; we do not cite the name of a river and get drowned by it; similarly we do not recite the praise name of a child and he does not rejoice at it (proverb on the importance of an oríkì name)",
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"A class of Yoruba names, this form of oriki known as oríkì ṣókí, it consists of short single Yoruba praise names or nicknames."
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},
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"text": "Oríkì ní ó gbajúmọ̀ jù nínú gbogbo ohùn-ẹnu Yorùbá",
"type": "example"
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"text": "It is often given by one's grandmother or older relative, similar to a cognomen. These often are informal and not part of the official name of a person."
},
{
"text": "a kì í pe orúkọ ẹni k'á báni wí; a kì í porúkọ odò k'ódò gbéni lọ; bẹ́ẹ̀ náà ni a kì í sọ oríkì ọmọ kínúu rẹ̀ má yọ̀ síni\nWe do not call someone's name and begin to reprimand him; we do not cite the name of a river and get drowned by it; similarly we do not recite the praise name of a child and he does not rejoice at it (proverb on the importance of an oríkì name)",
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