alubọsa
Yoruba
Etymology
From Hausa albasa, ultimately from Arabic بَصَل (baṣal). Cognates with Emai àlùbásà
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /à.lù.bɔ́.sà/
Noun
àlùbọ́sà • (Ajami Spelling الُبوَْسَ)
Synonyms
| Yoruba varieties and languages: àlùbọ́sà (“onion”) | |||||
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| Language family | Variety group | Variety/language | Subdialect | Location | Words |
| Proto-Itsekiri-SEY | Southeast Yoruba | Oǹdó | Oǹdó | àlùbásà | |
| Ọ̀wọ̀ (Ọ̀ghọ̀) | Ọ̀wọ̀ (Ọ̀ghọ̀) | àlùbásà | |||
| Ìtsẹkírì | Ìwẹrẹ | ututa | |||
| Olùkùmi | Ugbódù | àlùbásà | |||
| Proto-Yoruba | Central Yoruba | Èkìtì | Èkìtì | Àdó Èkìtì | àlàdé, àlùbásà |
| Àkúrẹ́ | Àkúrẹ́ | àlàdé, àlùbásà | |||
| Mọ̀bà | Ọ̀tùn Èkìtì | àlàdé, àlùbásà | |||
| Northwest Yoruba | Àwórì | Èbúté Mẹ́tà | àlùbọ́sà | ||
| Èkó | Èkó | àlùbọ́sà | |||
| Ìbàdàn | Ìbàdàn | àlùbọ́sà | |||
| Ìlọrin | Ìlọrin | àlùbọ́sà | |||
| Oǹkó | Òtù | àlùbọ́sà | |||
| Ìwéré Ilé | àlùbọ́sà | ||||
| Òkèhò | àlùbọ́sà | ||||
| Ìsẹ́yìn | àlùbọ́sà | ||||
| Ṣakí | àlùbọ́sà | ||||
| Tedé | àlùbọ́sà | ||||
| Ìgbẹ́tì | àlùbọ́sà | ||||
| Ọ̀yọ́ | Ọ̀yọ́ | àlùbọ́sà | |||
| Standard Yorùbá | Nàìjíríà | àlùbọ́sà | |||
| Bɛ̀nɛ̀ | àlùbɔ́sà | ||||
| Northeast Yoruba/Okun | Owé | Kabba | àlùbásà | ||
| Ede languages/Southwest Yoruba | Ifɛ̀ | Akpáré | máàsà | ||
| Atakpamɛ | máàsà | ||||
| Tchetti (Tsɛti, Cɛti) | máàsà | ||||
| Note: This amalgamation of terms comes from a number of different academic papers focused on the unique varieties and languages spoken in the Yoruboid dialectal continuum which extends from eastern Togo to southern Nigeria. The terms for spoken varieties, now deemed dialects of Yorùbá in Nigeria (i.e. Southeast Yorùbá, Northwest Yorùbá, Central Yorùbá, and Northeast Yorùbá), have converged with those of Standard Yorùbá leading to the creation of what can be labeled Common Yorùbá (Funṣọ Akere, 1977). It can be assumed that the Standard Yorùbá term can also be used in most Nigerian varieties alongside native terms, especially amongst younger speakers. This does not apply to the other Nigerian Yoruboid languages of Ìṣẹkírì and Olùkùmi, nor the Èdè Languages of Benin and Togo. | |||||