Yorùbá · Common Words · Level 1

How to say “pounded yam” in Yorùbá

Common WordsLevel 1 · Beginner
English
pounded yam
Yorùbá translation
Ìyán

Hear it in a sentence

Iyán jẹ́ oúnjẹ tó ń fún ní lágbára

A native speaker reads the whole sentence. The clip was matched to this word automatically and has not been reviewed, and no English translation of the sentence is available.

Recording by a native speaker from NaijaVoices, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Examples

Iyán yìí gbóná fẹlifẹli.

This pounded yam is piping hot.

Wọ́n ń gún iyán nínú odó.

They were pounding pounded yam food in a pounding mortar.

These are sentences where the word appears, matched automatically rather than hand-picked usage.

“pounded yam” across Nigerian languages

More common words at Level 1