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Yorubas

Yorubas is the plural of Yoruba.

Meaning of Yoruba

Noun

Yoruba (plural Yoruba or Yorubas)

  1. (in plural) A member of an ethnic group or tribe living mainly in southwest Nigeria, southern Benin, and eastern Togo and, as well as in communities elsewhere in West Africa, United States, Brazil and Cuba.
    • Approximately 40 percent of Yorubas in Nigeria are Muslim and 60 percent are Christian. […] Its members express a strong preference for being among Yorubas during their worship service: “Since I am a Yoruba and we Yorubas have our own Church. . . ."2014 April 7, Claire L. Adida, Immigrant Exclusion and Insecurity in Africa, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 60

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Questions about Yorubas

What is Yorubas the plural of?
Yorubas is the plural of Yoruba.

Words near Yorubas in the dictionary

  1. yortzite
  2. Yoruba
  3. Yorubaland
  4. Yoruban
  5. Yorubans
  6. Yorubas
  7. Yorubian
  8. Yorubians
  9. Yorubic
  10. Yoruboid
  11. Yorùbá

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