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What is The Yoruba Word For Wisdom? by tpiah01: 6:11pm On Sep 05, 2015
speak1emmalec:
Please I'll like to know the Yoruba word for wisdom?
Re: What is The Yoruba Word For Wisdom? by temitemi1(m): 6:20pm On Sep 05, 2015
Imo
Re: What is The Yoruba Word For Wisdom? by Mynd44: 6:20pm On Sep 05, 2015
Ogbon

Rhymes with
Ogun (inheritance)
Re: What is The Yoruba Word For Wisdom? by Mynd44: 6:21pm On Sep 05, 2015
temitemi1:
Imo
Imo means knowledge
Re: What is The Yoruba Word For Wisdom? by temitemi1(m): 6:23pm On Sep 05, 2015
Ogbon nko
Mynd44:

Imo means knowledge
Re: What is The Yoruba Word For Wisdom? by Mynd44: 6:26pm On Sep 05, 2015
temitemi1:
Ogbon nko
Wisdom, knowledge and understanding means

Ogbon, Imo ati Oye right?

Now appropriate each to their translation
Re: What is The Yoruba Word For Wisdom? by agarawu23(m): 6:26pm On Sep 05, 2015
temitemi1:
Ogbon nko
oye cool

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Re: What is The Yoruba Word For Wisdom? by Adminisher: 6:27pm On Sep 05, 2015
Laa Ka ye
Re: What is The Yoruba Word For Wisdom? by Obrigardo: 6:27pm On Sep 05, 2015
Mynd44:

Imo means knowledge

Then why are the ibos e-fighting yoruba now when one of their flagship states is a Yoruba name

or did you mean "in my opinion'?
Re: What is The Yoruba Word For Wisdom? by Mynd44: 6:43pm On Sep 05, 2015
agarawu23:
oye cool
Oye is understanding
Re: What is The Yoruba Word For Wisdom? by agarawu23(m): 6:44pm On Sep 05, 2015
Mynd44:

Oye is understanding
what's the answer then
Re: What is The Yoruba Word For Wisdom? by illmatic101(m): 6:46pm On Sep 05, 2015
Tilapia
Re: What is The Yoruba Word For Wisdom? by Mynd44: 7:00pm On Sep 05, 2015
agarawu23:
what's the answer then
Ogbon
Re: What is The Yoruba Word For Wisdom? by obiak4(m): 7:40pm On Sep 05, 2015
Imor lo la dini that is wisdom
Re: What is The Yoruba Word For Wisdom? by skyface00(m): 7:54pm On Sep 05, 2015
La ka ye
Re: What is The Yoruba Word For Wisdom? by tunde1200(m): 8:08pm On Sep 05, 2015
ore offe
Re: What is The Yoruba Word For Wisdom? by Odunharry(m): 10:14pm On Sep 05, 2015
oye
Re: What is The Yoruba Word For Wisdom? by tpiah01: 3:10pm On May 09, 2016
Ogbon is actually sense (or the negative cunning), from a technical viewpoint.

It is sometimes used for wisdom though.
Re: What is The Yoruba Word For Wisdom? by tpiah01: 3:11pm On May 09, 2016
Oye could be wisdom but it means knowledge or understanding.
Re: What is The Yoruba Word For Wisdom? by sherrylo: 3:20pm On May 09, 2016
tpiah01:
Oye could be wisdom but it means knowledge or understanding.

No! IMO means knowledge and oye means wisdom
Re: What is The Yoruba Word For Wisdom? by tpiah01: 3:25pm On May 09, 2016
state your views without being agitated.

Oye means understanding but can also be used for wisdom.

Imo means knowledge or to know something.
Re: What is The Yoruba Word For Wisdom? by Ezemust: 3:56pm On May 09, 2016
tpiah01:
state your views without being agitated.
Oye means understanding but can also be used for wisdom.
Imo means knowledge or to know something.
wat does Abia means?
Re: What is The Yoruba Word For Wisdom? by tpiah01: 3:57pm On May 09, 2016
Ezemust:
wat does Abia means?

Is there a specific reason why you are asking me what Abia means?
Re: What is The Yoruba Word For Wisdom? by Ezemust: 6:40pm On May 09, 2016
tpiah01:


Is there a specific reason why you are asking me what Abia means?
if imo means knowledge
Re: What is The Yoruba Word For Wisdom? by chinchong: 7:01pm On May 09, 2016
imo =knowledge and can also be used as understanding(you have to learn before you can have imo or understand a particular thing)

oye or la kaye =wisdom(partially natural, can be shaped by experience, the environment in which you grow up.the principle of "environmental determinism" comes in here)

ogbon=common sense(your ability to sense what is right or wrong which is simply the effect of human sense and conclusion)

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Re: What is The Yoruba Word For Wisdom? by orisa37: 8:04pm On May 09, 2016
Wisdom is Ogbon. Knowledge is Imo. Understanding is Oye. They are siblings and all female genders .
Re: What is The Yoruba Word For Wisdom? by tpiah01: 8:13pm On May 09, 2016
Why do you consider them female genders?

I think you have the greek myths in mind.

In Yoruba cosmology, the tortoise has ogbon (cunning) and he is male.

Just saying.

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