Yorùbá glossary
07The glossary
One word at a time, as the pieces publish.
The Ìtùnú Edit
Yorùbá at home
The words that keep turning up across the Edit, kept in one place. Each one is here because a piece was written about it, and each links back to that piece.
- Ìtùrá
To relax the body.
The word is ÌtùráIt names the house whose scents are built for the moment you arrive somewhere and put the day down.
- Orúkọ rere sàn ju wúrà àti fàdákà lọ
A good name is more precious than silver and gold.
The River and Her NameA proverb, and the turn the piece rests on: a name is not a gift someone hands you and can withhold. It is something you keep proving true, whether or not anyone says it correctly.