ogun

See also: Ogun, Ogún, and Ogün

Yoruba

Etymology 1

    Proposed to have derived from Proto-Yoruboid *ó-gwũ. Cognates include Ifè ogu, Igala ógwu, and Olukumi ogun. Likely related to Nupe ekun and Gbari ekun.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ō.ɡũ̄/

    Noun

    ogun

    1. war, battle (physical or mental)
      ogun àgbáyé ― world war
      Ogun ti ja gbogbo ilú wa.
      A war has ravaged all of our cities.
      • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎[1], number LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:
        Ìlérí ilé kò mọ ti à ń jagun; kùfẹ̀kùfẹ̀ kò mọ ìjà; ijọ́ tí a bá rí ogun là á mọ ojo.
        Boasting at home has nothing to do with waging a war; bragging has nothing to do with fighting; it is the day of battle that we know the coward. (proverb against boasting or bragging)
      • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎[2], number LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:
        Ọ̀rẹ́ẹ̀ mí gbogun tì mí lẹ́nu iṣẹ́.
        My friend was waging a war against me at work.
    Derived terms
    • adágundúródàgbàlagbà (“one who stops a war from reaching the elderly”)
    • aságun (“deserter”)
    • ẹgbẹ́ ọmọ-ogun (“army, armed forces”)
    • ẹgbẹ́ ọmọ-ogun orí-omi (“navy”)
    • ẹgbẹ́ ọmọ-ogun òfuurufú (“air force”)
    • jagun-jagun (“soldier”)
    • ogun abẹ́lé (“civil war”)
    • ogun-àjàkúakátá (“fight-to-finish war or battle”)
    • ogunkógun (“a particularly bad war”)
    • ológun (“warrior, soldier”)
    • Ológun (“name derived from ológun”)
    • olórí ogun (“commander, general”)
    Descendants
    • → Gullah: ogun
    • → Lucumí: ogún
    • → Trinidadian Creole English: ogun

    Etymology 2

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ō.ɡũ̄/

      Noun

      ogun

      1. a black mangrove tree (Avicennia africana)

      Etymology 3

        Yoruba numbers (edit)
        200
         ←  10  ←  19 20 21  →  30  → 
        2
            Cardinal: ogún
            Counting: ogún
            Adjectival: ogún
            Ordinal: ogún
            Adverbial: ìgbà ogún
            Distributive: ogoogún
            Collective: gbogbo ogún
            Fractional: ìdá ogún

        Proposed to have derived from Proto-Yoruboid *ōgwṵ́. Cognates include Ifè ogú, Igbo ọgụ, Igala ógwú, Itsekiri ogun, and Olukumi ọgbọ.

        Pronunciation

        • IPA(key): /ō.ɡṹ/

        Numeral

        ogún

        1. twenty
          ogún náírà ― twenty naira
          Eélòó ni ìwé yìí? — Ogún dọ́là ni.
          How much is this book? — It's twenty dollars.
          Synonym: okòó
          • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, quoting C. L. Adéoyè, Àṣà àti Ìṣe Yoruba‎[3], number LDC2008L03, 1979, Ibadan: Oxford University Press, page 46, quoted in Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:
            Ogún ọmọ ni mo bí, ọmọọ koríko; ọgbọ̀n ọmọ ni mo bí, ọmọ èrùwà; kàkà kì a bí ẹgbàá ọ̀bùn, bí a bí ọ̀kan ṣoṣo ọ̀gá, ó tó.
            (If I boast that) it was twenty children that I gave birth to, they are weeds children; (if I boast that) it was thirty children that I gave birth to, they are grass children; rather than give birth to two thousand children, if we give birth to one distinguished children, that is enough. (proverb on quality children)
          1. (after a noun) twentieth
            Ojú ewé kelòó l'a kà kẹ́hìn? — Ojú ewé ogún l'a kà.
            Which page did we read last? — We read the twentieth page last.
        Usage notes

        Since this number does not have a m-based form, similar to other multiples of ten afterwards, if it's describing a total number of items, it comes before the noun.

        1. ọmọ ogún ọdún ni mi. – I am twenty years old.
        2. ọmọ ọdún méjìlélógún ni mi. – I am twenty-two years old.

        However, if it is describing an ordinal sequence, it comes after the noun.

        1. Ọmọ ogún l'ó jẹ́. – He's the twentieth child.
        Derived terms
        • ogoogún (“all twenty”)
        • ogóje (“one hundred and forty”)
        • ogójì (“forty”)
        • ogún ogún (“twenty by twenty”)
        • ológún (“owner of twenty”)
        • ọgọ́fà (“one hundred and twenty”)
        • ọgọ́jọ (“one hundred and sixty”)
        • ọgọ́rin (“eighty”)
        • ọgọ́rùn-ún (“one hundred”)
        • ọgọ́sàn-án (“one hundred and eighty”)
        • ọgọ́ta (“sixty”)
        • (only used to form àádọ́wàá (“one hundred and ninety”)) ọgọ́wàá (“two hundred”)
        Descendants

        → Lucumí: ogún

        Etymology 4

          Cognates include Ifè ogú and Igala ógwú, from Proto-Yoruboid *ó-gwṹ.

          Pronunciation

          • IPA(key): /ō.ɡṹ/

          Noun

          ogún

          1. heritage, inheritance, legacy
            owó-orí sísan lórí ogún ― inheritance tax
            • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎[4], number LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:
              Agbójúlógún faraa rẹ̀ fòṣì ta
              Anyone who builds his hope on some future legacy will become vulnerable to destitution. (proverb against irrational expectation)
          Derived terms
          • ajogún (“heir”)
          • ajogún-ìgbàlà (“inheritor of salvation”)
          • ogúnkógún (“bad inheritance”)
          • orogún (“co-wife”)
          • ìwé ìpíngún (“legal will”)

          References

          • Anderson, Gregory D.S., Bolanle Arokoyo and K. David Harrison. 2012. Olùkùmi Talking Dictionary. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. http://www.talkingdictionary.org/olukumi
          • Awoyale, Yiwola (19 December 2008), Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎[5], number LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN
          • Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (1992), Quadrilingual Glossary of Legislative Terms (English-Hausa-Igbo-Yoruba), Lagos: Federal Cabinet Office and Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council
          • Salem Ǒchála È̩jè̩bá (2016), A Grammar of Ígálâ, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria: The Linguistic Association of Nigeria (LAN), →ISBN
          • SIL International (2016), Dictionnaire Ifè‎[6] (in French)
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