yorouba
French, noun/jɔ.ʁu.ba/
yorouba is spelled Y-O-R-O-U-B-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 34 million words in written French, the 186,002nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Yorouba is a French masculine noun meaning “alternative form of yoruba” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante orthographique de yoruba”.
What does yorouba mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of yoruba
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Variante orthographique de yoruba.
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de yoruba.
noun: 1. Membre d’un peuple humain vivant en Afrique de l’Ouest, particulièrement au Yorubaland au Nigéria.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of yorouba
- yoroubas plural
- Yoroubas plural masculine feminine
- Yoruba
- Yariba obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce yorouba?
- /jɔ.ʁu.ba/
- \jɔ.ʁu.ba\
- [jɔ.ʁu.ba]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is yorouba in French?
yorouba appears about once in every 34 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).