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  2. Yoruba name - Wikipedia

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    The Yorùbá believe that previous bearers of a name have an impact on the influence of the name in a child's life. Yorùbá names are traditionally classified into five categories: [2] Orúko Àmútọ̀runwá 'Destiny Names', ("names assumed to be brought from heaven" or derived from a religious background). Examples are: Àìná, Ìgè, and ...

  3. Category:Yoruba given names - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Yoruba given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of ...

  4. Yemọja - Wikipedia

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    Her name is a contraction of the Yoruba words Iye, a dialect variant of "ìyá" meaning "mother"; ọmọ, meaning "child"; and ẹja, meaning "fish"; roughly translated the term means "mother of fish children". This represents the vastness of her motherhood, her fecundity, and her reign over all living things.

  5. Oríkì - Wikipedia

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    Oríkì includes both single praise names [1] and long strings of “attributive epithets” that may be chanted in poetic form. [2] According to the Yoruba historian Samuel Johnson, oriki expresses what a child is or what he or she is hoped to become. If one is male, a praise name is usually expressive of something heroic, brave or strong.

  6. Asake - Wikipedia

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    His music is often an amalgamation of traditional yoruba music and percussion spanning heterogeneous contemporary music. Asake's vocal style delivery, primarily in Yoruba merged with English, urban colloquial slang and Nigerian Pidgin , reflects Nigerian hip hop and fújì music influences.

  7. Child of Mine - Wikipedia

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    Child of Mine is a British television drama thriller, written by Caleb Ranson and directed by Jamie Payne, that first broadcast on ITV on 13 November 2005. [1] Starring Joanne Whalley and Adrian Dunbar in the title roles, Child of Mine follows childless couple Tess (Whalley) and Alfie Palmer (Dunbar), who adopt two sisters from Canada whose mother was murdered by an unknown intruder.

  8. Ọlọrun - Wikipedia

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    From the Yoruba language, Olorun's name is a contraction of the words oní (which denotes ownership or rulership) and ọ̀run (which means the Heavens, abode of the spirits). Another name, Olodumare, comes from the phrase "O ní odù mà rè" meaning "the owner of the source of creation that does not become empty," "or the All Sufficient".

  9. Writer (album) - Wikipedia

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    Tracks on the album include "Up on the Roof" which was a number 4 hit for the Drifters in 1962, and "Child of Mine", which has been recorded by Billy Joe Royal, [5] among others. The album did not receive much attention upon its release, though it entered the chart following the success of King's next album, Tapestry , in 1971.