igbin

Yoruba

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ì.ɡ͡bĩ̀/

Noun

ìgbìn

  1. (music) upright open-ended log drums with single leather heads fastened and tuned by wooden pegs, sacred to the orisha Ọbàtálá, it is a subfamily of the gbẹ̀du family of drums. [1]
Hypernyms
  • àgbélẹ̀lù (“grounded drums”)
  • gbẹ̀du (“gbedu drums”)
  • ìlù (“percussion, drums”)
Hyponyms
Derived terms
  • Onígbìndé (“A Yoruba name meaning, "the igbin drummer has arrived."”)
References
  1. Fámúlẹ̀, Ọláwọlé (2018), “Èdè Àyàn: The Language of Àyàn in Yorùbá Art and Ritual of Egúngún”, in University of Florida‎

Etymology 2
Ìgbín
Ìgbín aláta pẹ̀lú ẹyin sísè àti ẹja àrọ̀.

From Proto-Yoruboid *ʊ̀-gbɪ̃́, cognate with Igala ìgbí, Idoma ìgbí, Olukumi ugbẹ́n, Ifè ɔ̀gbɛ̃́, Fon agbĭn

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ì.ɡ͡bĩ́/

Noun

ìgbín

  1. snail
Hyponyms
species of snail
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